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Crystelle Mourning |
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Eisa Nefertari Ulen
ISBN: 0743277589
Format: Hardcover, 207pp
Pub. Date: August 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
BBP Sales Rank: 53,724
List Price: $22.00
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Crystelle has a well-employed fiancé and a life in New York City that most
young professionals would envy. She has come a long way from skipping rope on
the cracked sidewalks of the rough Philadelphia neighborhood where she was
raised by a loving mother and grandfather. She experienced good times and bad
in equal measure in a community where people worked, played, and sometimes
fought hard too. She didn't leave the past behind her though. A ghost from
those West Philly days haunts her, a spirit whose presence in her dreams is as
welcome as it is unsettling. That spirit is Jimmie, her high school sweetheart
-- the one who she watched get gunned down one hot, unforgettable night all
those years ago.
Unnerved by her dreams of Jimmie and the suspicion that she may be pregnant,
Crystelle takes a train back to her old neighborhood to reconnect with friends
and family. There, with the help of Jimmie's mother -- a woman who Crystelle
loves like family and who makes a prison visit to the young man who murdered
her son -- Crystelle comes to grips with the memory that haunts her and learns
the power of forgiveness and the need to move on.
With its deeply resonant depictions of urban African American life and the
cultural forces that challenge and sustain their communities, Crystelle
Mourning is a triumphant, lyrical beginning to a bright new talent in fiction. |
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