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You Know Better: A Novel
As the tiny town of Mulberry, Georgia, celebrates its spring Peach Blossom Festival, things are far from peachy for three generations of Pines women.
Eighteen-year-old LaShawndra, who wants nothing more out of life than to dance in a music video, has messed up again -- but this time she isn't sticking around to hear about it. Not that her mother seems to care: Sandra is too...more
Eighteen-year-old LaShawndra, who wants nothing more out of life than to dance in a music video, has messed up again -- but this time she isn't sticking around to hear about it. Not that her mother seems to care: Sandra is too...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
January 7th 2003
by Harper Perennial
(first published April 2nd 2002)
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Wanted to read more books by this author because I enjoyed Ugly Ways so much. Proving to be just as good and intriguing. She is a master at expressing human emotion. Finished this book yesterday. After a while I got tired of the 3rd main character. Her language even got on my nerves as it did her Mother's and Grandmother's, i.e. coochie, ho, etc. The similarity of the book to the three Christmas angels and Scrooge was great. Book was thought provoking in the sense of what we all talk about now....more
When LaShaundra's grandmother is woken up from a dead sleep she knew something was wrong. Her grand baby was in trouble. She sprang into action immediately. She drove around town for a while until she saw an old lady she swore passed away months ago. She gets help protecting her grandmother along the way. All the while she doesn't know that this time Shandra is in deeper trouble than ever before.
Okay, so anyone who knows me knows that one of my favorite books is "The Hand I Fan With". I cannot tell you how many times I have read that book! Anyway, I was very let down with this one. Even though it takes place in Mulberry and has the same element of magical-realism, I just could not get in sync with these characters. All of them, well maybe not the grandmother, but the daughter and her mother just felt so false to me. I don't know why, but they made me sick. Their tones felt off, their la...more
Somewhat predictable. However, I am all for the themes of telling yourself the truth and bettering your story.
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Tina McElroy Ansa is a novelist, publisher, filmmaker, teacher and journalist. But above all, she is a storyteller. She calls herself "part of a long and honored writing tradition, one of those little Southern girls who always knew she wanted to be a writer." She grew up in Middle Georgia in the 1950s hearing her grandfathers stories on the porch of her family home and strangers stories downtown i...more
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