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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

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By Bebe Moore Campbell
Publisher Random House Publishing Group - (Ballantine Books)
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
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Intriguing...A thoughtful, intelligent work...The novel traces the yeasr from he 50s to the ate 80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush....She writes with simple eloquence about smalltown life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement....Campbell has a strong creative voice. THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Chicagoborn Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman, Armstrong is killed. And the precariously balanced world and its determined peoplewhite and blackare changed, then and forever, by the horror of poverty, the legacy of justice, and the singular gift of loves power to heal.

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352 pages352 pages
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