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Momma

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Momma set me on the jukebox. So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love. As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life's misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side.

—Shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction


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Publisher: Brown Girls Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 1, 2014

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781625174499
  • Release date: July 1, 2014

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781625174499
  • File size: 493 KB
  • Release date: July 1, 2014

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Momma set me on the jukebox. So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love. As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life's misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side.

—Shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction


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