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JamCaygirl 
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 Topic: BHM Bookclub - August 2014
Posted: Jul 29 2014 at 10:35pm |
The House of Six Doors- 328 pages
Serena, at thirteen,
leaves her home on the colorful Caribbean island of Cura ao and her
beloved grandmother, Oma, when her ambitious, impulsive, and emotionally
unstable mother takes her and her sister to the United States in
pursuit of the American Dream. They drive from Miami to Hollywood, where
their luck runs out and a 1963 Ford Galaxie becomes their first
American home
Silver Sparrow -352 pages
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow,
“My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones
unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s
complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.
Misconceptions- 267 pages
After finally
ending her year-long fling with a man she only refers to as Bad Habit,
the narcissistic, temperamental Alexandria Stone moves back home to New
York to start her dream job. That is, until she discovers she’s
pregnant, with quadruplets. When a business merger leaves her jobless
and penniless, she has no other choice but to move to Atlanta with Bad
Habit
Orange Mint and Honey- 336 pages
Broke and burned-out
from grad school, Shay Dixon does the unthinkable after receiving a
“vision” from her de facto spiritual adviser, blues singer Nina Simone.
She phones Nona, the mother she had all but written off, asking if she
can come home for a while.
When Shay was growing up, Nona was
either drunk, hungover, or out with her latest low-life guy. So Shay
barely recognizes the new Nona, now sober and with a positive outlook on
life, a love of gardening, and a toddler named Sunny. Though
reconciliation seems a hard proposition for Shay, something unmistakable
is taking root inside her, waiting to blossom like the morning glories
opening up in Nona’s garden sanctuary.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self - 229 pages
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In
each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American
experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in their
emotional immediacy, based in a world where inequality is a reality, but
the insecurities of young adulthood and tensions within family are
often the more complicating factors.
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke -212 pages
"People always say I'm going to look back on these days and laugh - why put it off?"
When
Angela Nissel found herself struggling financially while in college,
instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an
online journal that chronicled her day-to-day trials and tribulations.
Edited by JamCaygirl - Jul 29 2014 at 10:37pm
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sexyandfamous
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Posted: Jul 30 2014 at 4:03pm |
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It has to be a black author, right?
What about "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison?
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked
by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that
set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes
that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream
grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face
of adversity and strife.
She won the Nobel prize of Literature in 1993.
Edited by sexyandfamous - Jul 30 2014 at 4:05pm
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sexyandfamous
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Posted: Jul 30 2014 at 4:08pm |
 JamCaygirl wrote:
"People always say I'm going to look back on these days and laugh - why put it off?"
When
Angela Nissel found herself struggling financially while in college,
instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an
online journal that chronicled her day-to-day trials and tribulations.
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I just googled Angela Nissel and her pathway to Hollywood is different and unexpected. I vote for her book, in case Bluest Eye is not ok.
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