Going Down South - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Bonnie Glover was born in Florence, Alabama, but grew up in the mean streets of Brooklyn's East New York, where her book  The Middle Sister is set. She attended Rafael Cordero Junior High School and John Dewey High School, both in Brooklyn. She obtained a BS degree at the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida, and eventually a law degree from the Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida. She currently works for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Regional Counsel. She lives in Pembroke Pines, Florida, with her husband, Craig, and two sons, Matt and Ben. Klappentext From the author of The Middle Sister comes a heartwarming tale of second chances and the unparalleled love between mothers and daughters. When fifteen-year-old Olivia Jean finds herself in the "family way!” her mother! Daisy! who has never been very maternal! springs into action. Daisy decides that Olivia Jean can't stay in New York and whisks her away to her grandmother's farm in Alabama to have the baby-even though Daisy and her mother! Birdie! have been estranged for years. When they arrive! Birdie lays down the law: Sure! her granddaughter can stay! but Daisy will have to stay as well. Though Daisy is furious! she has no choice. Now! under one little roof in the 1960s Deep South! three generations of spirited! proud women are forced to live together. One by one! they begin to lose their inhibitions and share their secrets. And as long-guarded truths emerge! a baby is born-a child with the power to turn these virtual strangers into a real! honest-to-goodness family. Praise for Going Down South: "Long live Olivia Jean! Daisy! and Birdie! These three daughters! mothers! and women are smart! feisty! and funny. Their stories will break your heart in the very best way. I absolutely loved Going Down South!” —Carleen Brice! author of Orange Mint and Honey Part One Olivia Jean Her father, Turk, went down first, holding his work boots by the strings with his overnight kit tucked under one arm. He walked on his toes, taking the seventh step down with a side maneuver because he knew it creaked. He had learned his lesson the hard way from her mother, Daisy, waiting at the top of the stairs one night about five years ago. His foot strayed and pressed ahead when he should have gone to the left or the right. He might have made it past her if it hadn’t been for that step. She had dozed off, and there were ways to get around Daisy when she was asleep. But he was in no state to remember all of the things he should have remembered. And besides, Daisy was sitting with her legs flung across the top of the landing just so she could catch him. Clutched in her right hand was a broom leaning forward at a cockeyed slant, straw bottom down and ready to do damage. That night in March, Olivia Jean had just passed her tenth birthday and should have been asleep when he touched lucky stair number seven and it whined loud enough to wake her mother. Daisy grunted, choking on a snore, and was on her feet lightning quick without even rubbing her eyes or wiping the thin line of drool at the corner of her mouth. She gripped the broom in both hands, turned it upside down, and swung it at Turk’s copper-skinned head. He leaned away in time but she started at him again. Her robe fell open, and Olivia Jean saw long, thick legs under a nightgown that stopped near her coochie, and then one of her titties fell out as she lifted her arm and aimed again. Olivia Jean was crouched at the keyhole of her bedroom door, jaw wide, the scene surprising her so much that she banged her head against the doorknob as she tried to get a better view. Daisy kept swinging as if she were trying to get at a spider in the corner or a big, fat cockroach that always appeared out of nowhere when company came to visit. There was rage in ...

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Glover, Bonnie J. Glover
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2008
• EAN: 9780345480910
• ISBN: 978-0-345-48091-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature