What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Contributor(s): Cleage, Pearl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061710385 ISBN-13: 9780061710384 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Women |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Idlewild |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Michigan - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Topical - AIDS |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 25938 Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild--her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love. Acclaimed playwright, essayist, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable novel that sizzles with sensuality, hums with gritty truth, and sings and crackles with life-affirming energy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cleage, Pearl: - Pearl Cleage is the author of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth and Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot. An accomplished Playwright, she teaches playwriting at Spelman College, is a cofounder of the literary magazine Catalyst and writes a column for the Atlanta Tribune. Ms. Cleage lives in Atlanta with her husband. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day...is her first novel. |