Sunday, June 24, 2018

Liberation List (fiction book): Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell



"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"REMARKABLE...POWERFUL."
--Time
"YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings."
--The Indianapolis News
"EXTRAORDINDARY."
--The Seattle Times
"A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story."
--Entertainment Weekly
YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction



A fictionalization of the lynching of Emmett Till, this story looks at the long-term consequences of racism within communities and how it affected a diverse group of people. As the title suggests, it looks at all the intersections of identity, the sorrows they cause, and how they played out for individuals. I read this for a sociology class and it was the one reading everyone in class thoroughly enjoyed. Highly recommend it!

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