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Zusatztext "The author's prose is poignant! like a strong left hook...sad! but endearing...written with precision and skill." Informationen zum Autor Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers , a New York Times Editors’ Choice, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, and featured as a clue on Jeopardy! She is author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow, and Shifting Through Neutral . Davis is also writer/director of the award-winning film Naked Acts, which was recently re-released to critical acclaim. She is Professor Emerita at Baruch College (CUNY) and the Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the LA Times, among other publications. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia Journalism School, she lives in Brooklyn with her family. Klappentext Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots. Her bid whist–playing mother is as nervous as ever, and her father's chronic migraines seem less responsive to medication. And while they all occupy the same house, they might as well be living separate lives. When the tenuous peace finally breaks, Rae must decide where her loyalties lie: should she choose her emotionally distant mother, whom she adores, or her affectionate but needy father? Rae does choose and launches into a rich, loving relationship with her dad, for whom she shows a fierce, undying loyalty. But as she matures, she must find a way amid her own budding sexuality to be both Daddy's girl and her own woman. Zusammenfassung Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl! Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister! Kimmie! whom her mother favors! has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit! a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots. Her bid whist–playing mother is as nervous as ever! and her father's chronic migraines seem less responsive to medication. And while they all occupy the same house! they might as well be living separate lives. When the tenuous peace finally breaks! Rae must decide where her loyalties lie: should she choose her emotionally distant mother! whom she adores! or her affectionate but needy father? Rae does choose and launches into a rich! loving relationship with her dad! for whom she shows a fierce! undying loyalty. But as she matures! she must find a way amid her own budding sexuality to be both Daddy's girl and her own woman. ...
