Growing up in a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, Patience Jan Campbell struggles to accept her family--including a reflective father, misunderstood mother, and wise aunt--as she searches for love, understanding, maturity, and self-fulfillment, in a spiritual coming-of-age novel. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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Rita Coburn Whack is a writer, television and radio producer, and on-air radio contributor. She is a two-time Emmy winner. Currently a contributor for WBEZ-FM, Chicago’s public radio station, she is married, a mother of two, and a resident of south suburban Chicago. You can e-mail her at RitaCoburnWhack@aol.com.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2002 Trade PB. Villard- Publisher. 311 pgs. No marks, clean pgs, binding solid. Cover very good. This is an ARC- Uncorrected Proof. In this inspirational, semi-autobiographical novel, Jan, who is troubled by conflicts in her family, turns to her dead grandmother, Hannah, for support. She then shares the narration with Hannah in an exploration of Jan's life story from the 1960s through adulthood, as she grows up in an African-American community and goes on to a career as a disk jockey. When Meant to Be opens, thirteen-year-old Patience Jan Campbell is called upon to read and interpret her favorite scripture for the church congregation: I think this scripture 'means that children know every shut eye ain't sleep and every head bowed ain't praying, so grown-ups ain't fooling us or God. . . . So nobody should hold a child back from God just cause they may be having trouble finding Him. Seller Inventory # 001960
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