Joy
Published on 30. January 2014
352 pages
978-0-00-748315-0 (ISBN)
Description
"All families got secrets, but Joy's had more than their fair share. So while I'm able to tell you what she did, ain't no use me pretending that I know why ... they was just born under bad moons."
This is the story of Joy Bang and her sisters, three singers who dream of a glittering future that briefly, too briefly is theirs. When Joy dies unexpectedly, the floodgates of Baby Palatine's memory are opened. Foster mother to the sisters from their childhood, she remembers the hopes and dreams which fuelled their meteoric rise. But as the family gathers for the funeral, Baby is forced to acknowledge that as well as the Joy she loved and worshipped, there was another Joy she had never known ...
A compelling story of jealousy and love, tragedy and deception, and of growing up black in a white world, this is Marsha Hunt's powerful first novel.
This is the story of Joy Bang and her sisters, three singers who dream of a glittering future that briefly, too briefly is theirs. When Joy dies unexpectedly, the floodgates of Baby Palatine's memory are opened. Foster mother to the sisters from their childhood, she remembers the hopes and dreams which fuelled their meteoric rise. But as the family gathers for the funeral, Baby is forced to acknowledge that as well as the Joy she loved and worshipped, there was another Joy she had never known ...
A compelling story of jealousy and love, tragedy and deception, and of growing up black in a white world, this is Marsha Hunt's powerful first novel.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-748315-0 (9780007483150)
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Marsha Hunt was born in 1946 and grew up in Philadelphia. She studied at the University of California in Berkeley during the student riots of the 1960s but soon left for Europe.
