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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs (2014)

by Pearl Cleage(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451664699 (ISBN13: 9781451664690)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: The journals of poet (and playwright, and screen writer, and journalist, and speech writer, etc) Pearl Cleage were a really good read. I enjoyed every aspect of the her exploration of the big issues: how to write, how to live, men, race, rape, feminism and black feminism. Solitude. In the tradition of Nin, Sarton, LeMarque, Kahlo, Lorde, the woman's essential mind rattling its cage, even if it is sometimes an open cage. I will read this book again.
review 2: It turned out it wasn't what I was expecting. Not that Cleage isn't a good writer. I had been looking forward to this memoir because I was at Spelman and in Atlanta during part of the period she covers, but about halfway through I just lost interest. It's been a few months now and while I am no longer tr... moreying to finish the book, I am holding onto it in case at some future date I decide to give it another try. less

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