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By Tina Mcelroy Ansa (© 1993)
Read by Maxine Robinson (Amer.)
1994 Books on Tape, Inc.
Unabridged
Fiction > Fiction - Family Saga

Three Southern sisters come home to bury their mother. They grapple with what a mother is, a black mother is, and what their mother was.

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Three sexy, screwed-up Southern sisters come home to put their self-centered mother in her grave. In laying to rest the demons Mudear Lovejoy has dumped on them, Betty, Emily and Annie Ruth must define what a mother, a black mother -- their mother -- was.

As they reminisce, they are unaware that even though Mudear's body lies in the funeral home, her spirit floats about, watching them smoking, drinking their father's liquor and talking about marijuana like "some damn black girl hippies."

"Catches the rhythm of life in the small town of Mulberry, Ga. In this world, the sardonic and the sassy live side by side. As Mudear, the realist, says, 'When you dead, you done. So, let the good times roll.'" (Publishers Weekly)

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Book rating: Reader rating: Reviewer: Kristina Buckley	January 13, 2003
What happens when a woman tires of being powerless and decides to reign supreme in her own home? The results are not pretty--decide for yourself, which character has "ugly ways"? You'll need to listen for yourself to understand, and the reader is excellent. I highly recommend this frank, thought-provoking book, especially to women.

Book rating: Reader rating: Reviewer: Anonymous	November 1, 2002
I didn't like the ending. The mother never admitted that the way she raised her daughters was wrong. She took no responsibiity for her daughters' problems.