Bebe Moore Campbell, Author . Putnam $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-14784-5
The friendship between a black woman and a new immigrant in 1940s California sets in motion events that span two generations in Campbell's (Singing in the Comeback Choir) densely plotted new novel. Hosanna Clark, a maid at an elegant Los Angeles
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author . Knopf $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4074-2
This powerful story of a mother trying to cope with her daughter's bipolar disorder reads at times like a heightened procedural. Keri, the owner of an upscale L.A. resale clothing shop, is hopeful as daughter Trina celebrates her 18th birthday...
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author Putnam $22.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-399-13929-1
Further demonstrating the authoritative grasp of racial issues and the candid picture of African American life she brought to her first novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine , Campbell sets this story in Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Rodney...
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author Putnam $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-399-14298-7
A sheen of emotional slickness prevents Campbell's disappointing third novel from achieving the resonance of her earlier work (Brothers and Sisters; Your Blues Ain't Like Mine). Two women struggle to overcome betrayal. Professionally successful and...
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author Random House (NY) $15.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-394-55149-4
In this country, over half the married women, many with children, work outside the home, and dual-career couples now head the divorce statistics. Such figures, quoted in Campbell's book, claim the reader's attention. Herself a divorced mother, the...
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-13415-9
This insightful tribute to fathers--biological and stand-in--and mothers is told in a series of reminiscences of black writer Campbell's ( Successful Women, Angry Men ) childhood, which she spent with each of her divorced parents in turn: her mother
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-399-13746-4
Written in poetic prose, filled with masterfully drawn and sympathetic characters that a less able hand might have rendered in stereotypes, this first novel blends the irony of Flannery O'Connor's fiction and the poignance of Harper Lee's. Moving...
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator , illus. by E.B. Lewis. Putnam $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23972-4
In a prefatory note, Campbell (Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
) explains that she wrote this book "to address the fears and concerns of children who have a parent who suffers from mental illness." As her insightful, moving tale opens,...
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Bebe Moore Campbell, Author, Richard Yarde, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-24197-0
Mindy is scared about performing at her jazz dance recital, despite the encouraging words of her three great aunties: ""Whatever happens, just keep dancing."" Unconvinced, Mindy shuts herself in her bedroom, until a talking drum appears at her...
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