White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)1016 reviews Janet Fitch Back Bay Books, 2000 White Oleander + A touching story + Great read, beautifullly written + good book + A well-crafter exploration of a girl growing up hard in the system             The Missing World: A Novel25 reviews Margot Livesey Picador, 2006 Both a big book and a small book. + who do you trust to explain your world to you? This is the story of an egoist, obsessed with a lover who now detests him. Then the lover suffers a stroke, inducing partial amnesia, so that she forgets the years in which their relationship soured; the egoist attempts to take advantage of this, caring for her and resuming the relationship. Not ...             Memoirs of a Geisha2478 reviews Arthur Golden Vintage, 2005 MEMOIRS OF A MASTERPIECE + The best book by far + Excellent Portrayal of Geisha Life + Definitely Worth Reading + Memoirs of a Geisha             How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)152 reviews Julia Alvarez Plume, 2005 Great Novel + LOVED THIS BOOK! + good for immigrants + How the Garcia Girls Lost Thier Accent             The Grass Dancer27 reviews Susan Power Berkley Trade, 1997 Practically Lyrical + An Inside Look at a Little Known Spiritualism. + Powerful, lyrical, moving The editorial and other customer reviews do a good job of covering the characters and basic plot, so I won't go into that. This has to be the best book I've read in months. It's practically lyrical, the sentences are so pretty. The dust jacket is more than a little off on the plot, so don't read ...             The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)502 reviews Toni Morrison Plume, 2000 Gripping, Haunting + IDK + Excellent novel I literally could not stop reading, once I started. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of the Breedloves, a hard-luck Black family whose existence is defined by its members' conviction that they cannot be loved as they are. Little Pecola Breedlove longs to be loved. She decides ...             In My Mother's House (Anniversary)4 reviews Kim Chernin MacAdam/Cage, 2003 Please Notice: + Fascinating personal accounts of controversial history + Mother and daughter revisit their struggles with communism + Extraordinary Portrayal             Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language23 reviews Eva Hoffman Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Enlightening description of immigration and languages + outstanding wirting + Lost in Translation + Lost, But Found As Well + a classic             Their Eyes Were Watching God406 reviews Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story + A Beautiful Piece of Literature + Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century + Dreamy little novel             Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel1173 reviews Rebecca Wells Harper Paperbacks, 2004 Great Seller! + The secrets of the popular girls The seller made a mistake by putting "hard cover" for the book I purchased when it was a soft cover book. When I received the book and contacted the seller instead of making me pay for shipping or wait for them to send me an envelope to send it back, they told me to just keep the book and fully ...             Black Ice26 reviews Lorene Cary Vintage, 1992 PEER REVIEW + Good book + Black Ice Dear peer, The first thing that you need to know about Black Ice is the author which is Lorene Gary. I liked this book because I learned that you can make mistakes of doing drugs, but you can quit just in time to have a better future. This book is ...             The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)1419 reviews Barbara Kingsolver Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 A Gem of Postcolonial Literature + An Eye Opener + A book for the Colonialists, not the colonised: for Westerners, not Africans + The Poisonwood bible + A Retrospective             Brown Girl, Brownstones (Contemporary Classics by Women)17 reviews Paule Marshall The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2006 these reviews are sad + THE BARBADIAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN BROOKLYN, NY... + Peer Review i'm horrified at these reviews. marshall has put together a brilliant novel rich in prose and dialogue, an amazing work overall that should earn her the right to be identified with among the most important writers in the last half century. its funny how so much of our society is dumbed down to the ...             Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language23 reviews Eva Hoffman Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Enlightening description of immigration and languages + outstanding wirting + Lost in Translation + Lost, But Found As Well + a classic             Brown Girl, Brownstones (Contemporary Classics by Women)17 reviews Paule Marshall The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2006 these reviews are sad + THE BARBADIAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN BROOKLYN, NY... + Peer Review i'm horrified at these reviews. marshall has put together a brilliant novel rich in prose and dialogue, an amazing work overall that should earn her the right to be identified with among the most important writers in the last half century. its funny how so much of our society is dumbed down to the ...             The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)1419 reviews Barbara Kingsolver Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 A Gem of Postcolonial Literature + An Eye Opener + A book for the Colonialists, not the colonised: for Westerners, not Africans + The Poisonwood bible + A Retrospective             Black Ice26 reviews Lorene Cary Vintage, 1992 PEER REVIEW + Good book + Black Ice Dear peer, The first thing that you need to know about Black Ice is the author which is Lorene Gary. I liked this book because I learned that you can make mistakes of doing drugs, but you can quit just in time to have a better future. This book is ...             The Grass Dancer27 reviews Susan Power Berkley Trade, 1997 Practically Lyrical + An Inside Look at a Little Known Spiritualism. + Powerful, lyrical, moving The editorial and other customer reviews do a good job of covering the characters and basic plot, so I won't go into that. This has to be the best book I've read in months. It's practically lyrical, the sentences are so pretty. The dust jacket is more than a little off on the plot, so don't read ...             The Missing World: A Novel25 reviews Margot Livesey Picador, 2006 Both a big book and a small book. + who do you trust to explain your world to you? This is the story of an egoist, obsessed with a lover who now detests him. Then the lover suffers a stroke, inducing partial amnesia, so that she forgets the years in which their relationship soured; the egoist attempts to take advantage of this, caring for her and resuming the relationship. Not ...             Their Eyes Were Watching God406 reviews Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story + A Beautiful Piece of Literature + Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century + Dreamy little novel