Thursday, February 26, 2015

THE POSITIVE REVIEWS CONTINUE

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 LATEST REVIEW
 OF
 A DOLLAR FIVE-
STORIES FROM A BABY BOOMER’S ONGOING JOURNEY”

“These stories became more and more beguiling as I read. She touches lightly on Jim Crow in the Fifties and the Sixties and somehow emerges more intact than you would expect, because there must have been more incidents affecting her than she gives away. She describes her mother lovingly and her father as a somewhat stern yet caring man. The family's historic barbecues, their drive down the hairpin curves of San Francisco's famed Lombard Street, The Crookedest Street In The World, her triumph over dissecting a frog and the teacher, Miss Cook giving her the foundation for college and a profession, her Great Aunt Mary who hid her car from her employers because they were not to know she could afford one and did not need their handouts of cast-off clothes and leftover food, all these paint a picture of Sheryl Bize-Boutte's childhood in both light and shadowy landscapes.”   

L.B., Oakland, California, 2/21/2015


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