Getting Mother's Body : A Novel (Paperback)

from suesbooks

Interesting portrayal of life of black family in the south in the 60's. Written from many points of view, which was sometimes difficult to keep in mind, but did add interest to the story. Motives of characters sometimes difficult for me to understand.

from madamejeanie

I've never read anything by this author. The book jacket says she won the Pulitzer Prize for playwriters in 2002 for her play "Top Dog/Underdog." I've never heard of it, either, so the only thing that made me pick this one up was the title. This is the story of a quest for buried treasure, set in...

from mnlohman

Five months pregnant, Billy Beede heads up to Texhoma, Texas, to marry her fiance, Clifton Snipes, who designs individualized caskets for a living, Unfortunately, upon her arrival in Texhoma, Billy discovers Snipes' wife with baby #7 on the way.

from justablondemoment

humm..not sure how to go about writing a review for this book. It was just so different. I got really involved with the story and the characters but at the same time I felt that they could have been more fleshed out. I couldn't give it 5 stars only because I didn't enjoy the "song lyrics".

from KurtWombat

I will start by saying that I really wanted to like this book better than I did. I was hopeful because the book started well. I was caught up in the different character's voice's, their dialect and phrasing set each character nicely apart as the narration duties swung from one character to the ne...