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All families got secrets, but Joys had more than their fair share. So while Im able to tell you what she did, aint no use me pretending that I know why they was just born under bad moons. This is the story of Joy Bang and her sisters, three singers who dream of a glittering future that briefly, too briefly is theirs. When Joy dies unexpectedly, the floodgates of Baby Palatines memory are opened. Foster mother to the sisters from their childhood, she remembers the hopes and dreams which fuelled their meteoric rise. But as the family gathers for the funeral, Baby is forced to acknowledge that as well as the Joy she loved and worshipped, there was another Joy she had never known A compelling story of jealousy and love, tragedy and deception, and of growing up black in a white world, this is Marsha Hunts powerful first novel. Marsha Hunt joins a formidable company of black American writers. Like Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, she proclaims the experience of the black American woman in a white dominated world.OBSERVER Intricately constructed and skilfully written, 'Joy' is an assured mixture of tragedy and wry comedy which has something to say about blackness, about love that binds, and about the way we become what we are.BOOKS --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A simple black woman who fosters three little girls sees their lives unfold and this is the basis for her story. The story opens with the tragic death of one of them, a famous black singer, Joy Bang. The author examines the effects of fame on the other two girls, as the layers unfold.
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A simple black woman who fosters three little girls sees their lives unfold and this is the basis for her story. The story opens with the tragic death of one of them, a famous black singer, Joy Bang. The author examines the effects of fame on the other two girls, as the layers unfold.
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Marsha Hunt was born in 1946 and grew up in Philadelphia. She studied at the University of California in Berkeley during the student riots of the 1960s but soon left for Europe.
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- PublisherCentury
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0712636560
- ISBN 13 9780712636568
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages346
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