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Her thirteen-year marriage troubled by hurt and doubts, Tamra Lane embarks on a spiritual journey into her past and draws strength from the experiences of her mother and grandmother. Reprint.
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Trained as a minister, Brenda Lane Richardson is a journalist, active public speaker, and the author of Story Power, The Language of Fertility, and Chesapeake Song. She has written a column for the Oakland Tribune, and her work has appeared in Essence, Glamour, Ms., and the New York Times Magazine.
The mingled pain and joy of family life and the bonds between generations are the subjects of a leisurely narrative that is overwritten and diffuse at times, but rewards patient readers with moving insights. First-novelist Richardson begins her story in 1990, then interweaves episodes from the previous four decades as she considers the troubled marriage of Charles and Tamra Lane, as well as the lives of Tamra's parents, Seth and Virginia Wells. Seth is the principal of a black high school in Nanticoke, Maryland; another black family, the wealthy Lanes, own an 800-acre farm nearby. Charles and Tamra fall in love in college, but each has family issues to resolve. She bears emotional scars inflicted by her father's alcoholism and is determined to escape by becoming a geneticist and studying abroad; he dreams of building the Lane farm into an agricultural industrial complex. After a long courtship, they marry, and Tamra gives up her job as a laboratory researcher soon after she gives birth to twins. As Charles devotes more and more time to managing his land, relations between them become strained. She finally leaves with their children, an act that echoes her mother's actions 26 years earlier. Though it sometimes veers close to bathos, this thoughtful story offers forthright background detail about race relations while it illuminates the havoc caused by recurrent patterns of destructive behavior.
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- PublisherPinnacle Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0786003049
- ISBN 13 9780786003044
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near New. Reprint. African-American novel paperback book, 1st printing, 9/96 Condition is near new, has light edge wear, some aging, appears unread.(See scans).WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more iinformation**. SUMMARY - Set against the backdrop of rural Maryland, CHESAPEAKE SONG tells the unforgettable story of three indomitable African-American women.Tamra and Charles Lane have known they were meant for each other ever since they were kids. But past hurts and doubts about the future have taken a toll on their thirteen-year marriage. Seeking answers, Tamra leaves Maryland for New York and embarks on a spiritual journey into her past. As she grapples with a decision that could change her life forever, she draws strength from the experiences of the women in her family: her mother, Virginia Henry, who struggled to make a better life for herself and her daughter; and her grandmother, Big Mama, the proud matriarch who held her family together when everything else was falling apart. Weaving between the past and the present, CHESAPEAKE SONG moves across three generations and a world of changing times and values. Resonating with drama and passion, it is a novel by a stunning new voice in contemporary fiction--a richly rewarding story of family, love and sacrifice.and the powerful ties that bind. Seller Inventory # 100723005
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