The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls (Hardcover)

from gpangel

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray is a 2019 Berkley publication. Even healthy and happy families are complicated and complex. This is especially true with mother and daughter relationships, and the connections between sisters. In this novel, Gray examines the darker a...

from kbranfield

4.5 stars. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray is a poignant novel of healing and ultimately, new beginnings. As older sister Althea and her husband Proctor Cochran await their prison transfers following their conviction and sentencing, sisters Viola and Lillian Butle...

from mzonderm

Often, when I get to the end of a book, I'm left wanting to know what happens to the characters after the last page. Much less frequently, do I feel the need to know about what happened before the first page. But that was how I felt with this book. What happened to get this family into this predi...

from ShannonRose4

A novel of one Michigan family coming to terms with the aftermath of choices made by parents. Told in raw and vivid detail, we see how the daughters deal with both the past traumas and present loss of the community that once supported them. This debut novel speaks to how the deep bond between mot...

from froxgirl

This tense family saga is perhaps a bit too full of characters and dilemmas, but it's disturbing and memorable. The Butler family, two African American sisters and their brother, struggle to support eldest sister Althea, who, with her husband Proctor, is jailed for misuse of funds they had collec...