What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
10 best books like What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Pearl Cleage): Nappily Married, Scenes from a Sistah, In Search of Satisfaction, Big Girls Don't Cry, Brothers and Sisters, Better Than I Know Myself, Mother of Pearl, River, Cross My Heart, The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book, Blues Dancing
| Author | Trisha R. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0312361300 |
Venus Johnston debuted with brazen personality and spirited humor in Nappily Ever After as she searched for the holy grail of marriage. Blessed with a beautiful baby daughter and a husband who is a former rap star with his own multi-million-dollar clothing company, her long journey to find love has...
| Author | Lolita Files |
| ISBN | 0446674427 |
This was pretty demm entertaining, LOL. I particularly loved the frank dialogue. Maybe it's because I don't read much women's lit, but somehow, I don't think I'd find as much unflinching discussion of sex elsewhere.
I do not say this easily since I heartily disapproved of one of the main characters...
| Author | J. California Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385467869 |
The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper has proven that hers is a wholly original talent --one that embraces readers...
| Author | Connie Briscoe |
| ISBN | 0060172770 |
Growing up in a loving and supportive middle-class family in Washington, DC, in the '60s, Naomi Jefferson worries about what to wear, her bra size and meeting boys, and she has dreams of one day opening her own clothing store. While she knows racism is a problem (occasional brushes with the uglier side...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0425172678 |
Bebe Moore Campbell’s Brothers and Sisters, originally published by Putnam in 1994* in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, is a true testament to what I wish we could see more of on bestseller lists today. Published during an era of growing racial tensions (though what era doesn’t have that?)...
Better Than I Know Myself
| Author | Virginia DeBerry |
| ISBN | 0312273096 |
The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they're pretty confident that...
| Author | Melinda Haynes |
| ISBN | 0671774670 |
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew...
| Author | Breena Clarke |
| ISBN | 0316899984 |
The acclaimed bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club--that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.
River, Cross My Heart marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller...
| Author | Bill Cosby |
| ISBN | 0590956175 |
[Scholastic Readers Level 3]
This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But...
| Author | Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
| ISBN | 0060750316 |
Verdi and Rowe have been living a comfortable existence for the past twenty years. She was the pampered daughter of a prosperous rural preacher when she came to Philadelphia in the seventies -- and he was a conservative professor at the university she was attending, the man who rescued Verdi from an ugly...
| Author | Tina McElroy Ansa |
| ISBN | 0156000776 |
The bestselling tale-powerful, compassionate, humorous-of the three Lovejoy sisters reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia, on the occasion of their mother’s death. As the emotionally scarred Lovejoys prepare for their mother’s funeral, the spirit of the selfish and manipulative...
| Author | Valerie Wilson Wesley |
| ISBN | 0380977036 |
Anybody lucky enough to have experienced the artistry of Valerie Wilson Wesley already knows that her ability to blend wry humor with stark reality is unsurpassed. And now she plies her talents in a new direction in an insightful, poignant story of family ties unraveling and lost loves regained.Eva...
