Tryin' to sleep in the bed you made / Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeBerry, Virginia, author.

Grant, Donna, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

DeBerry, Virginia (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Grant, Donna (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 375 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Other Title:

Trying to sleep in the bed you made

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

From the time they were young, Gayle and Patricia were raised like sisters, as close as two friends could be. But they each had dreams that would take them far away - and far away from each other. Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her world complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Pat and Gayle since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay. When they realize that dreams can be hollow and love has its cost, they learn the most important lessons of all: to never give up on the people who love you, and that it isn't just blood that makes two people sisters.

Contents:

Prologue: "What happened to my life?"

Part One. Makin' the bed

Part Two. Tryin' to sleep.

Notes:

"Design by Songhee Kim"

"First Edition: January 1997"

"Jacket design by Charles Rue Woods"

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Honor, 1998

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "Sleep well! Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant".

ISBN:

0312152337 :

OCLC:

35627677