Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel
by Bebe Moore Campbell
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Author: Bebe Moore CampbellEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-06-27
ISBN: 0345401123
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Book Reviews of Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel
Book Review: This book is great and ...ONE THOSE "CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN" books
Summary: 5 Stars
first of all,
I enjoy THE WRITING STYLE OF BEBE CAMPBELL MOORE.
I liked this particular book because it was surprising how much the author could get you to see the similarites and the contrasts in the different races and genders in the book, you feel their pain, their anguish, their happiness and their sadness regardless of their race but you also get a ending that is true redemption and without melodramatism. It is a story not so much of the South and the aftereffects of racial tensions but the story of how different people's "blues" are TO THEM. And how despite all the lies, prejudices and stereotypes that try to paint people as strange and different. We are really all alike except that some people have a bigger heart and wider sense of forgiveness than others. Despite that, or maybe even because of it, many people struggle to understand how, when that 1 person whom that meet that does not fit stereotype, just does not fit, what exactly is wrong and thus, for me the power of this book. Some of the very prejudices and problems ("blues") many cultures have to undergo are solely due to ignorance of what makes us all so very alike, we all bleed red blood, all women give birth with the same body parts, we all fall in love, laugh, cry etc, because we are all human
Summary of Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel
"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING."--San Francisco Chronicle
"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"REMARKABLE...POWERFUL."
--Time
"YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings."
--The Indianapolis News
"EXTRAORDINDARY."
--The Seattle Times
"A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story."
--Entertainment Weekly
YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction
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