Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Bebe Moore Cambell
Fiction
323 pages
Repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives
after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in
a small Mississippi town in the 1950s. Bebe Moore
Campbell's affecting memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up
With and Without My Dad, was hailed by The
Philadelphia Inquirer as "a remarkable achievement."
"Ripe with family stories, lush with images, suffused
with emotions," said the Kansas City Star. "It is
probably one of the more overdue books about and for
the black community," wrote Nikki Giovanni in The
Washington Post. Now Campbell turns her abundant
talents to fiction in an evocative first novel, Your
Blues Ain't Like Mine. Chicago-born Armstrong Todd is
fifteen, black, and unused to the segregated ways of
the Deep South when his mother sends him to spend the
summer with relatives in her native rural Mississippi.
For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a
white woman, Armstrong pays the ultimate price when
her husband, brother-in-law, and father-in-law decide
to teach him a lesson. The lives of everyone involved
in the incident - black and white - are changed
forever, and the reverberations extend well into the
next generation. Resonant with the sorrows of poverty
and racial prejudice as well as the triumphs of love
and social justice, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine marks
the debut of a powerful, clear voice in contemporary
fiction.
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