Brothers and Sisters [Audio Cassette]

Bebe Moore Campbell (Author, Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1994

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Audio Renaissance Tapes (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559273038
• ISBN-13: 978-1559273039
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,457,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Racial differences, March 30, 2006

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Beverley Strong (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brothers and Sisters (Mass Market Paperback)

Esther Jackson is a strikingly beautiful black woman, well educated who, by sheer hard work and determination, has forged herself a place in the upper eschelon of the banking world. She is striving to become a loans officer, knowing that she has the ability to go all the way to the top of her profession but being held back by the glass ceiling which stalls women and black women in particular. Her unlikely friend is a blonde, beautiful Valley girl who has had all the advantages of a wealthy background but lacks the one thing she craves, the love of her father. She has been trying to compensate for this lack with a series of affairs with older, successful married men, only to be rejected time and time again. Their story and the story of their friendship which struggles almost daily to overcome the differences in their cultures, is a most interesting one, with prejudices of both races coming to the fore...I dound it to be most illuminating.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BROTHERS AND SISTERS, March 30, 2001

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Mary Allen "Mary B Allen" (HARRISBURG, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brothers and Sisters (Mass Market Paperback)

BROTHERS AND SISTERS is an excellent book with a beautiful, thought-provoking cover. The main character, Esther, walks a fine line to maintain respect and professionism as an African American bank manager, working in a predominantly white bank. She must must make several choices between colorless friendship and Black loyalty and between haves and have nots. In her personal life, she must make the choice between white-collar and blue-collar love. BROTHERS AND SISTERS shows the deceitful routes some people will take to reach their goal, not caring who is run over. This book also looks at how little things have changed between the races and the sexes, but in contrast, it shows rarely-seen truiumph over injustice. The well-rounded cast of characters make this book realistic and believable. Bebe Moore Campbell is a very good writer.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Modern Day Morality Play, August 22, 2000

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NappyGirl (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brothers and Sisters (Mass Market Paperback)

If this novel is any indication of Bebe Moore Campbell's talent, I think she's bound for an exciting and prolific career. Set in L.A. in the aftermath of the infamous Rodney King verdict, BROTHERS AND SISTERS introduces the reader to a banking world filled with interesting and complex characters both Black and White. Campbell has an excellent ability to traverse modern day racial complexities in a manner which is neither unrealistic nor condescending. Any Black female professional is bound to identify with the struggles and situations that Ester faces in the book: trust issues with White co-workers, dating a blue-collar man, walking the colorline, and maintaining personal dignity in a workspace where nobody looks like you. I found the novel to be enjoyable and insightful. It's perfect reading for a long plane ride.