Redemption Song - Hardcover

Berry, Bertice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385498446 ISBN 13: 9780385498449

Publisher: Doubleday, 2000

Synopsis

In her fiction debut, comedian and inspirational speaker Bertice Berry has written a spiritual love story that will seep into your bones and remain with you long after the last page has been turned. Redemption Song is a marvelous story about love, the importance of understanding one's history, and the power of books and how they can influence your life.

Josephine "Fina" Chambers and Ross Buchanan meet in Black Images, a small African American bookshop, as they both reach for a rare copy of a slave woman's "memory book." Each refuses to let go of the book until the wise and spirited owner, Miss Cozy, negotiates a deal. Over the next several days, they will read the slave woman's book together in the comfort of the bookstore. In the process, Ross and Fina will realize that the path to their shared future may be linked to something that happened more than a century ago...
Over the next several days, they read the slave woman's book aloud in what becomes the magical cocoon of the bookstore. In the process, they learn about African-American history, the power of the human spirit, and discover four essential elements for the survival of society. Ross and Fina also come to realize that the path to their hearts may be linked to an event that happened more than a century ago.

REDEMPTION SONG is a marvelous story about love, the importance of understanding one's history, and, most of all, about books and how they can influence a person's life. It is also a love song to booksellers everywhere: The Miss Cosy character is modeled after a real African-American bookstore owner. -->

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Review:

"A simple love story to drive home the importance of understanding one's history . . . Entertaining but also enlightening."
--USA Today

"A TENDER LOVE STORY THAT SPANS GENERATIONS . . . Redemption Song leaves you wanting more."
--The Orlando Sentinel

"COMPELLING . . . THOUGHT-PROVOKING . . . Filled with life lessons wrapped in mother wit and family lore."
--The Dallas Morning News

"A SPARKLING, HEARTFELT DEBUT."
--CONNIE BRISCOE

About the Author:

Bertice Berry is a sociologist, comedian and inspirational speaker. She is also the author of three nonfiction books, including I'm On My Way But Your Foot Is On My Head: A Black Woman's Story of Getting Over Life's Hurdles; Sckraight from the Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If...; and You Still Ghetto: You Know You're Still Ghetto If... She lives in California, where she is raising her sister's three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385498446
• ISBN 13: 9780385498449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 181