Her thirteen-year marriage troubled by hurt and doubts, Tamra Lane embarks on a spiritual journey into her past and draws strength from the experiences of her mother and grandmother. Reprint. PW. LJ.
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From Publishers Weekly
The mingled pain and joy of family life and the bonds between generations are the subjects of a leisurely narrative that is overwritten and diffuse at times, but rewards patient readers with moving insights. First-novelist Richardson begins her story in 1990, then interweaves episodes from the previous four decades as she considers the troubled marriage of Charles and Tamra Lane, as well as the lives of Tamra's parents, Seth and Virginia Wells. Seth is the principal of a black high school in Nanticoke, Maryland; another black family, the wealthy Lanes, own an 800-acre farm nearby. Charles and Tamra fall in love in college, but each has family issues to resolve. She bears emotional scars inflicted by her father's alcoholism and is determined to escape by becoming a geneticist and studying abroad; he dreams of building the Lane farm into an agricultural industrial complex. After a long courtship, they marry, and Tamra gives up her job as a laboratory researcher soon after she gives birth to twins. As Charles devotes more and more time to managing his land, relations between them become strained. She finally leaves with their children, an act that echoes her mother's actions 26 years earlier. Though it sometimes veers close to bathos, this thoughtful story offers forthright background detail about race relations while it illuminates the havoc caused by recurrent patterns of destructive behavior.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In her first novel, set in a scenic area of Maryland and featuring African American protagonists, Richardson deftly composes a lyrical work that is both rhapsodic and eloquent. A sweet serenade to enduring love everywhere, it opens with two passionate, intelligent, and strong people coming to a bittersweet interlude after 13 years of marriage. Richardson then relies on flashbacks to explain how Tamra and Charles Lane arrived at this crisis point. The story that unfolds is smart, funny, and poignant, offering perceptive social commentary on love, marriage, family obligations, careers, substance abuse, and life and death. The literate and lively prose vividly depicts a host of well-drawn characters. This novel belongs in all fiction collections, as well as those supporting African American history and concerns.
- An gela Washington-Blair, Texas Woman's Univ. SLIS, Denton
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- An gela Washington-Blair, Texas Woman's Univ. SLIS, Denton
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
This review is from: Chesapeake Song (Paperback)
Do we always choose people that remind us of our parents? An interesting look a marriage & friendship. And how the past does not have to dictate our present.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
exciting and refreshing,
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This review is from: Chesapeake Song (Mass Market Paperback)
From the moment I opened the book, I was captured. It was very refreshing to read the words on the page that actually made you feel as though you were right in the mist of the characters. I thought that characters Tamara and Charles could be any couple of today. Most interesting however, is that we all must battle with the demons of the past before we can move on in life. Tamara having her life long friend walk her through the hurt put an interesting take on the novel.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good,
By divadee "diva_dee" (Woodbridge, Va United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chesapeake Song (Mass Market Paperback)
Started slow, and although I had a difficult time finishing it, this was a pretty good book.
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