Mama's Girl - Hardcover

Chambers, Veronica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573220302 ISBN 13: 9781573220309

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1996

Synopsis

In a moving and candid memoir, a young African-American writer describes growing up in Brooklyn with her mother and little brother as a member of the post-Civil Rights generation, discussing her relationship with her mother and the hard times they faced.

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Review:

"For any daughter who has ever loved and blamed Mama in the same anguished breath...triumphant."—Bebe Moore Campbell

"Moving...the story of a strong soul growing up."--USA Today

"While Mama's Girl skillfully traces the evolution of a complicated mother-daughter relationship, it is also a testament to the resilience of black women across generations."--Ms.

"A troubling testament to grit and mother love...While the story of her own achievement under grim, often violent circumstances is extraordinary, the reader is left feeling particularly grateful for [Chambers's] compassion. Her portrait of her Panamanian mother--proud, protective, angry, and in need--is one of the finest and most evenhanded in the genre in recent years."--The New Yorker

"Affecting and eloquent...Chambers's rise...is remarkable, as is her spare, lilting writing style...On the often painful circumstances she has faced--her mother's coldness, what it means to be black in the post-civil rights era--Chambers writes with probity. And she illustrates her thoughts with well-culled details that are telling and lyrically rendered: A."--Entertainment Weekly

About the Author:

Veronica Chambers has held a Freedom Forum Fellowship at Columbia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1573220302
• ISBN 13: 9781573220309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194