Frances Rose
BOOK REVIEW of Green Grass, from CEO, Founder & President, Angela Lewin, of Albany Behavioral Health, Albany, New York.
"Reading Green Grass takes the reader to a time when men called themselves men and women reaped the residual of what they think were deserved including the demands of their bodies. Green Grass is timely as we are experiencing what can only be decribed as some individuals who are seeking a return to the thinking patterns that are remininscence of that dark period of American history..." "The Sociological perspective of the book.. supports the fact that some of the owners of slaves indeed are descendants/parents, and not just the abstraction of names as part of their ownership of another human being.." "I loved Lily's strength, courage, boldness, and intelligence, she ignored the limits of her gender and crossed all forbidden lanes...it solidifies the notion that gays and lesbians have been around for centuries. I recommend young people should read Green Grass. "My humble opinion, you should try to get Green Grass into the Oprah book club." 2021
BOOK REVIEW of Green Grass, from Dana Wilde, The Kennebec Journal! October 1, 2021.
"Green Grass” . . . tells a story of sex trafficking and the racism that intensifies its poison. The narrative is neatly framed as a series of episodic recollections by Anna . . . the light-skinned daughter of a Black family outside Buffalo . . . [Her father] uses a horrific incident — all too familiar to Black Americans — of brutality as an excuse to ship Anna off to her uncle in Hudson, New York. There, she and other young teenage girls are sold to sex traffickers. The virgins among them are referred to clandestinely as “green grass.” . . .
The plot, which at first turns mainly on unutterable pain and suffering, blossoms into a love story . . . Its recounting of a brutal situation that a hundred years ago seemed invisible to White people in the Northeast, even while it took place directly among them in places like Hudson, is timely.
— Dana Wilde, The Kennebec Journal
Author's Note: I am not impressed when either one-star or five-stars are given for my book, if there is not a name and a written review to go with that given star. I prefer reviews written, whether they be good, bad or indifferent, and from 'verified buyers' who leave their name.
Frances was born and raised in Hudson, New York. She spent time working at Brookwood Annex, New York State Training School for Girls, and numerous years in human services. She earned her A.A. from HVCC in Troy, NY, and a BS in Education with minors in English and Psychology from SUC Cortland. Her novella is a complexed story compressed through her poet’s voice. Her short stories and poems have been in periodicals and university presses, including her own website that had over 40,000 hits for the five years it was up. Her poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She lives on an island in Maine.
Frances' future lesbian memoir is in the works: Frances has written and published many poems, short stories, and essays. Since she is presently working on her memoir, she would like to share one of her essays for Eastern Kentucky University's Ninepatch : A Creative Journal for Women and Gender Studies, entitled 'The Young Lesbian Who Dated Boys.' It will become a part of her larger memoir in progress. Here is a link to that essay that has received over 4,700 readings to date. https://encompass.eku.edu/ninepatch/vol1/iss1/14/. If the link does not work, write it in or please Google: The Young Lesbian Who Dated Boys by Frances Drabick. Volume 1, Issue 1, Awakening, Article 14.
