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Between Heavan And Here (2000)

by Susan Straight(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: A beautiful woman grows up poor, betrayed by the men who want to own her beauty for a time. She gets pregnant as a teenager, has a son, does her best to raise him, but dies when he is still a teen. Murder or overdose, some people around her lie while others seek to uncover the truth.People holding on to the edge still have much to lose.This story was too dark for me, and skipped back and forth a little too much.
review 2: Interconnected stories about a Creole family living in Riverside, California. Glorette is the center, each story spoking off her troubled life and violent death. The stories take us to a levee in Louisiana where 100 people are stranded after a deadly flood in 1926, to a juvenile correctional facility in Chino, to Riverside's strip malls and ... morehighway overpasses and an improvised parking lot around a community college. After a bit of a slow start, I came to love this family. I want to read more of their stories, or watch them play out in many seasons of an HBO/Showtime series. They're proud and edgy and clannish and simmering with resentments, disappointments, secrets. Beautiful writing, especially dialogue/voice. It's gritty like The Wire, with flashbacks like in a Toni Morrison novel, and the deep compassion of Let the Great World Spin. less

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