Campbell, Bebe Moore

New York. 1989. Putnam. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0399134158. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello/Eyetooth Design, Inc . Signed by the author. keywords: Black Women Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Summers were when Bebe Moore Campbell grew close to her father. That was the season when his fast car raced from Philadelphia to the Tidewater region of North Carolina with his prized daddy's girl. From the heat of those summers emerges this powerful memoir of the bond between a daughter and a father who were separated by divorce. With the narrative force of fiction, Bebe Moore Campbell recounts her growth toward womanhood in terms of the most complex and vital relationship of her life. With clear-eyed honesty, she tells her story, omitting nothing - the surprise appearances, the cataclysmic disappointments, the heartbreaking secrets, the loneliness, the love. And in SWEET SUMMER, love triumphs in the face of the realities of modern family life. Raised in a doubly female-headed household by a fiercely loving mother and grandmother, and a host of unforgettable aunts, uncles, pastors, teachers, friends and relatives, Bebe Moore Campbell experienced the complexities of family life in today's world. Her remembrance, told in lyric prose that begs to be read aloud, is in many ways like that much-derided modern family. It's hilarious, sometimes biting, occasionally wrenching and painful, and, in the end, nurturing and redemptive. Is a woman ever too grown-up to be a daddy's girl? Are the stereotypes of absentee fathers true? Are female- headed households domiciles of despair? SWEET SUMMER, intensely personal yet universal, takes us where we may explore the answers. ‘Sweet Summer is a wonderful book.' - Bill Cosby, author of Fatherhood. inventory #40473 ISBN: 0399134158.