I love this book, definately amoung my all-time favorites!! Beautifully written, this book is a page turner from beginning to end! I laughed and cried, but by then end it just felt whole. ( )

A well-written novel about a woman learning to live with the fact of being HIV positive. ( )

the owner of an Atlanta beauty parlor comes to a sudden end when she discovers that she is HIV positive. Shunned by her peers in Atlanta, Ava decides to start a new life in more broad-minded San Francisco--but first she visits her older sister, Joyce, at their childhood home in Idlewild, Mich. A former all-black resort, Idlewild is now just a small rural town crumbling fast under the weight of big city problems. Soon Ava's visit extends into something more permanent as she joins Joyce's efforts to teach teenage mothers. When one of the mothers abandons her baby, Joyce and Ava are granted temporary guardianship.
Source: Novelist/Publisher's Weekly review

Wondeful tale about the fears of AIDS/the black community and love in odd places. I was really touched by this story and felt the heartbreak of each character, especially the narrator, Ava. ( )

I became a huge Pearl Cleage fan after reading "Deals with the Devil" but this book was disappointing for me. ( )