Maybe a solid 1 and a quarter stars is really adequate. Really wanted to like this book but the narrative wasn't very fluid. A lot of the dramaturgy was forced and just didn't mesh well with the story. There were highlights and narratives about characters that made no sense to the overall web of ...
t7 of 8 people found the following review helpful: A Journey Straight To The Heart..., February 20, 2006Bernice L. McFadden's latest release, Nowhere Is A Place, centers on a journey of discovery that spans across country, generations, and time. No nonsense, down-to-earth Dumpling and her distant...
Amazing. AMAZING. AMAZZZING!! (I'm still in a bit of a shock over this one. Yes, it was amazing. ----Originally post on my blog guiltless readingThe choice to forgive is yours.The book in one sentence: A young woman strives to make sense of a life touched by alcoholism and abuse. My two cents: Th...
My journey with Sugar Lacey has come to an end. Bernice McFadden is a great writer.When I finished Sugar almost a year ago, I wanted to know how she was, and what happened to her after she left Arkansas and where she would end up, if she would be okay. Although it took me forever to get This Bitt...
Pearl has had her heart ripped out after the murder of her daughter; Sugar has had her life ripped apart by choices made for her by others. Neither knows, until Sugar moves next door to Pearl, what life has in store for them both.In my quest to find the alternative to “The Help” I’m trying to imm...
Journey, a fix-it man from Kingston who had come into my home to repair my roof and stayed to reconstruct my soul. Four years three months and two days to be exact. The afternoon the words rolled off of my doctor's tongue and dropped down to the floor, I was thirty-two years old.I say the words d...
They spent most Saturdays out in their rowboat drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, and reeling in bass. When the rains stopped, they used their boat to rescue the living and the floating dead. They were the ones who found Cole and Doll. Inside the Payne house on Candle Street, furniture, dishes, a...
Colin’s mother was dead. Of course he would have to go home to Barbados and say his final goodbye. Easter turned the book over, clutched it by the spine, and waved it briskly through the air. The pages flapped noisily, but not a dollar fell. The money was gone. She rushed from the apartment and r...