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A crazy summer
Delphine and her two younger sisters are off to California to spend a month with their mother. Their mother who they haven't seen in seven years. Their mother is a poet who has renamed herself and she is active with the Black Panthers. It's the sixties and it's a crazy time with a crazy mother the girls really don't know...will they connect?
I love the sixties, and I loved this story about a black family in the sixties during the Black Power movement. It's a wonderfully new point of ...more
Delphine and her two younger sisters are off to California to spend a month with their mother. Their mother who they haven't seen in seven years. Their mother is a poet who has renamed herself and she is active with the Black Panthers. It's the sixties and it's a crazy time with a crazy mother the girls really don't know...will they connect?
I love the sixties, and I loved this story about a black family in the sixties during the Black Power movement. It's a wonderfully new point of ...more
Jun 20, 2015
Janet
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