Momma Gone

✍ Scribed by Nina Foxx

• Book ID: 111231834
• Publisher: Brown Girls Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781625174499
• ASIN: B00MASF492

✦ Synopsis

Momma set me on the jukebox. So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love. As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life s misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side. -Shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction