Trading Dreams at Midnight
A Cultural, Fiction, African American book. I have read all of Diane McKinney-Whetstone's books, so I am quite familiar with her work and style and consider...
Neena's mother, Freeda, disappeared on a cold February morning in 1984, leaving the fifteen-year-old Neena and her younger sister, Tish, in the care of Nan, their stern grandmother. Two decades later, Neena—no longer living in Philadelphia—supports herself by blackmailing married men. Returning to her childhood home when a sting goes terribly wrong, she avoids her grandmother while attempting to pull one last hustle on a prominent local lawyer. But discovering that Tish has been hospitalized with pregnancy complications forces Neena to...
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I have read all of Diane McKinney-Whetstone's books, so I am quite familiar with her work and style and consider myself a fan (see my Amazon review of Leaving Cecil Street). So much of a fan that I blindly pre-ordered her new book long before a book description was available on Amazon.com or it was offered via the Vine program. Nonetheless,... I was so pleased to see that recently, Lidudumalingani won the African Caine prize for his beautifully layered story, "Memories We Lost"; a story that follows siblings, as one tries to help her sister cope with mental illness. It's about time mental illness is discussed properly in African and African-American literature, as well as... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. So, I couldn't put this book down- staying up all hours of the night to finish it. It was that intriguing...but now I'm mad because I wanted the characters to develop more. And they didn't. Because the book ended. I wish it was a mini series so I could...
