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  <title><![CDATA[Grown Folks Business: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;CENTER&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;Font size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Sheridan's husband wanted to stop living a lie, but how was she going to live her life knowing the truth?&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/Font&gt;&lt;/CENTER&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;&quot;There's no other way to say this. I'm in love with someone else.&quot;&lt;/I&gt; With these words, Sheridan Hart's life as she knows it comes to a crashing halt. She thought she was living every woman's dream: for the past seventeen years of marriage, Quentin had been a model husband, father, and business partner. But for all those years, he'd been hiding a secret from her. In fact, he had kept his secret from everyone. His startling confession is a lifelong attraction to men, and he is leaving her to be with his lover.&lt;P&gt;While coming to grips with the destruction of her marriage, Sheridan must also deal with the emotional reactions of her sixteen-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter. When word gets out about Quentin, everybody has something to say -- her family, her friends, and her church community all have advice to give and judgment to dole out. But at the end of the day, Sheridan must lean on her faith and her heart to decide what's best for her family.&lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading this book and thought it was very good, the conflict and response in the book mirrors unfortunately what some women have to go thru, when men aren't honest about their true feelings. the books explores different points of view w/o being judgemental. i really enjoyed this book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47839062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was great.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well done story about a difficult topic.  When wealthy African-American Sheridan is unxpectedly confronted by her husband of 17 years leaving her for another man, it rocks her world.  She has to learn to cope with his secrets as well as try to keep her children stable.  There are a multitude of chal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17433447">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Make sure you have the day off before you read the first page of this book, you won't be able to put it down!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book that showed a family divided after heartbreaking secrets come to the light.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of Ms. Murray books are great reads, I so enjoyed them all. Christian books]]></body>
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