Crossing over Jordan - Rilegato

Brown, Linda Beatrice

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ISBN 10: 0345378571 ISBN 13: 9780345378576

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1995

Riassunto

Escaping her mother's life of slavery but unable to get out of an abusive relationship, Sadie watches her daughter become overcome by materialism and her granddaughter struggle to break the family cycle, in a story of oppression and emotional freedom.

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L'autore:

Linda Beatrice Brown is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and holds the Willa B. Player Chair in the Humanities at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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LY AFFECTING NOVEL about the hidden legacy of slavery--from the waning of the Civil War to the early twenty-first century."
--Essence
Georgia McCloud lives to see emancipation. Her daughter Sadie discovers that, though she might be free, she is powerless to break with a man who abuses her. But at the center of their communal pain is Sadie's intelligent, beautiful, ambitious daughter Story, who wants more from life than she's been led to expect. Her uncompromising desire for safety corrupts Story to her very soul, dooming her to wander an emotional desert, repressed, rigid, enslaved to propriety. Her daughter Hermine must then challenge the lie that life is hardship. But can Hermine finally break the cycle of oppression that has chained the women of her family? Can she alone cross over Jordan?

Reminiscent of the early work of Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, Crossing Over Jordan deftly explores the themes of the mother-daughter relationship, the emotional scars left by hist

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0345378571
• ISBN 13: 9780345378576
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida