What looks like crazy on an ordinary day-- : a novel / Pearl Cleage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleage, Pearl

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Michigan--Fiction.

Michigan.

Genre:

Love stories.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 244 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Avon Books, 1997.

Summary:

As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson had always heard that, if you were young, black, and had any sense at all, Atlanta was the place to be. So as soon as she was old enough and able enough, that was where she went - parlaying her smarts and her ambition into one of the hottest hair salons in town. In no time, she was moving with the brothers and sisters who had beautiful clothes, big cars, bigger dreams, and money in the bank. Now, after more than a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living, Ava has come home, her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth. Ava Johnson has tested positive for HIV. And she's back in little Idlewild to spend a quiet summer with her widowed sister, Joyce, before moving on to finish her life in San Francisco, the most HIV-friendly place she can imagine. But what she thinks is the end is only the beginning because there's too much going down in her hometown for Ava to ignore. There's the Sewing Circus - sister Joyce's determined effort to educate Idlewild's young black women about sex, drugs, pregnancy, whatever...despite the interference of the good Reverend Anderson and his most virtuous, "just say no" wife. Plus Joyce needs a helping hand to make a loving home for Imani, an abandoned crack baby whom she's taken into her heart. And then there's Wild Eddie, whose legendary background in violence combined with his Eastern gentility has stirred Ava's interest...and something more.

Contents:

June

July

August

September

November.

Notes:

"First Avon Books Printing: December 1997."

"Jacket Design by Nadine Badalaty. Jacket illustration by Zita Asbaghi."

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

038097584X :

OCLC:

37024133