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All of Me : A Voluptuous Tale Berry, Venise
N A L 2001 New York, NY, U.S.A. 0451202627 / 9780451202628 Trade Paperback Near Fine with no dust jacket
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall CLean Trade paperback. One interior corner is unintentionally creased. Serpentine Williamson, a television reporter in Chicago, is an African American woman whose low self-esteem almost ruins her life. Hospitalized after a breakdown, she begins to confront her challenges. Although she has a loving family, supportive friends, and a devoted boyfriend, Serpentine's voluptuous body and excessive weight gain have been issues for most of her adult life. How can she love herself when she hates the way she looks? Through flashbacks, reminiscences, notes from her journal, and excerpts from sessions with her therapist, readers come to know and like this feisty woman, who has much more to give herself and those she loves than she realizes. When Serpentine eventually gains the strength and dignity to begin her recovery, readers will breathe a sigh of relief. Women of all races will find this book funny, sad, inspiring, and delightful; from the author of So Good.
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So Good Berry, Venise
N A L 1997 New York, NY, U.S.A. 0451182480 / 9780451182487 Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Mass Market PB 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Fresh, clean mmpb is problem-free. Solid reading copy. For African American sisters Lisa Allen and Danielle Mead, and their best friend Sundi Karif, their mid- to latter 30s in Washington, D.C., is a time of fundamental life change. As Berry's debut novel opens, the extremely independent Sundi is marrying Chris, a Nigerian with traditional ideas of a woman's role; Lisa, single and rebounding from a broken engagement, is finishing her doctoral program; and Danielle, restless in her solid but uneventful marriage, is considering an affair with her young executive assistant. Soon, Sundi, now married, finds herself alienated from Chris; Danielle leaves her husband for the thrilling but superficial younger man; and Lisa meets and impulsively weds a romantic with a dark side. As the women struggle to maintain their balance in the conflict between reality and what they had intended for themselves, their history and love for one another, along with a scathing honesty, serves as a constant amid the turmoil. Berry has recreated the subtle complexity of the contemporary African American professional woman's world, flavored with motherwit and home truths from preceding generations of family. The elasticity and forgiveness of the African American culture is evident in the friends' disagreements, their response to crisis and their ultimate taking of responsibility for their actions. The prose can be flat and impersonal, reading more like reportage than fiction. But even so, Berry's novel opens the front door and greets the reader with a genuine smile of welcome. Hopefully, Berry will learn to liven up her prose, for she traces characters who are real and appealing enough to demand a sequel.
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