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Playing My Mother's Blues

by Valerie Wilson Wesley

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Dani Carter was seven years old—her sister, Rose, seventeen—when their beautiful, impetuous mother, Maria, walked out of their lives, abandoning her husband and family for a love affair that would end tragically mere months later. Now, after decades, Dani's own loveless marriage is faltering—propelling her into the arms of another and inspiring troubling thoughts of escape from her husband and beloved young son.

Dani fears the sins of the mother have been visited upon the daughter. And, unlike Rose, who never speaks of their lost parent, Dani can't help but wonder who Maria really was. It's a puzzle that may soon be solved because, in a time of emotional and physical chaos, Maria, calling herself Mariah, is about to re-enter her daughters' worlds—bearing secrets and bitter truths . . . and, perhaps, long-awaited answers.

Synopsis:

In her triumphant new novel, the bestselling author of "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" pens Ra story about a mother's betrayal, a murder, and a secret . . . A novel filled with anguish and compassion, secrets and lies, wealth and desperation R ("Essence").

About the Author

Valerie Wilson Wesley is the author of the novels Always True to You in My Fashion and Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do, winner of the 2000 Best Fiction Award of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the nationally bestselling Tamara Hayle mystery series. A contributing editor at Essence magazine, her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ms. and the New York Times. She lives in New Jersey.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780061015533
Author:
Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Publisher:
Avon Books
Author:
Wesley, Valerie W.
Author:
by Valerie W Wesley
Subject:
General
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
Parent and adult child
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Publication Date:
February 2007
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
264
Dimensions:
6.79x4.26x.73 in. .28 lbs.

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