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44 reviews
Bernice L. McFadden

Dutton Adult, 2003

Riveting
Bernice McFadden had me at Sugah. After reading that series, I was a solidified fan. Loving Donavan encapsulated me in the same way as Sugah's tragic story. The depths of Love, especially Love as experienced by African American woman (of three generations no doubt) are poetically captured in this book. Love equals vulnerability, and vulnerability equals the risk of being hurt. Despite these laws, ...

This Bitter Earth

47 reviews
Bernice L. McFadden

Plume, 2002

Great Read
Great book. Not your typical story line. This book was a page turner. Bernice McFadden is an amazing writer. I would strongly recommend this book as well as all this authors books.

Nowhere Is a Place

25 reviews
Bernice L. McFadden

Dutton Adult, 2006

Masterpiece
Yes, I am declaring this book a masterpiece. Although a work of fiction, this story rings true for many African Americans whose roots in America began in the South. The relationship between the central characters Dumpling and her daughter Sherry, are paralleled via a book that Sherry is writing about her ancestors. McFadden's book cuts back and forth between the central storyline and the story ...

Camilla's Roses

21 reviews
Bernice L. McFadden

Thorndike Press, 2004

POWERFUL AND ENTHRALLING............
In another amazing piece of work from this author, readers are drawn into the lives of the Rose women....beginning with sisters Velma and Maggie. Velma, the eldest, is the plain jane of the two; Maggie, although blessed with beauty, is definitely lacking in the brains department. The beautiful, naive Maggie is seduced by Velma's boyfriend Lloyd, and caught in the act. Velma is filled with ...

The Warmest December

67 reviews
Bernice L. McFadden

Plume, 2002

Spellbinding and Shattering.
Kenzie Lowe is the adult daughter of an abusive alcoholic father, Hyman Lowe, called Hi-Lo throughout the book. She has grown up to be an alcoholic herself and, after starting out with a promising career because her grandmother Mabel helped her escape to boarding school, she has thrown it all away and finds herself living again in the projects with her mother Della. They are now on welfare and ...

Sugar

133 reviews
Bernice L. McFadden

Plume, 2001

Sugar and spice and everything nice
Wow, First of all this story was very good hate it taking me so long to read this novel.Ms Mcfadden did a very good job on this story about sugar.This tale take us back 15 years ago when they find a little girl in the wildflowers died.a Murder that left the mother without life until she meets sugar and her live change forever, a friendship that means alot to both of these ladies.A love that every ...