Far from the Tree
by Virginia DeBerry 
, Donna Grant
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After their father's death, sisters Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier leave their hollow lives and travel to Prosper, North Carolina, with their mother, Della, to come to terms with their pasts and their futures.Tags
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I didn't enjoy this one a lot. it's a family history of a black family in the States, very defunct. The protagonists are draining. I assume they fel like real people, but the novel lacks warmth. it does portray very accurately the complex hate-relationship in families, and how people hide their own past from those nearest (and presumably dearest) to them. It got better in the second half, but the first half dragged a lot.
The life of two black women who struggled through life changing events. The beginning felt like it wandered around before deciding where to go with this story but as it unfolded I was more drawn in. If you stick with it I think you'll like the stories of these two women
I didn't enjoy this one a lot. it's a family history of a black family in the States, very defunct. The protagonists are draining. I assume they fel like real people, but the novel lacks warmth. it does portray very accurately the complex hate-relationship in families, and how people hide their own past from those nearest (and presumably dearest) to them. It got better in the second half, but the first half dragged a lot.
Follows "Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made". Another wonderful read by these two best women friends.
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Virginia DeBerry's first novel, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, co-authored with Donna Grant, has been highly acclaimed. The novel is about the friendship of two African-American women and the relationship began when they were young girls and continues throughout the unexpected twists and turns their lives take. Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You show more Made was a 1998 Fiction Honor Book Winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. The book was also honored by the (GOG) Go On Girl! Book Club, Inc., the premier reading group for African-American women. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Virginia DeBerry is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- 2000
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