Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity - that is, until Phoebe's real father, B.J., a renowned investigative reporter, shows up in town to work on a story connected to Catherine. Now she must finally reveal the truth she's been withholding from Phoebe for eighteen years, bringing them all together in ways they never could have imagined.
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The conjurer juggles with oranges, and our pleasure in watching springs from the fact that never, even for an instant, is any orange overlooked or sacrificed. So it is listening to Pearl Cleage's richly layered novel. Catherine Sanderson struggles with the question of when it is time to tell the whole truth to her daughter. As she works toward reconciliation with Phoebe, and with Phoebe's father, she also narrowly escapes a dangerous liaison with a criminal who runs a prostitution ring of immigrants. Cleage's pleasing voice is both gentle and strong as she tells this story of spirited African-American women. K.A.T. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
The New York Times...
Cleage writes with amazing grace and killer instinct.
About the Author
Pearl Cleage is the author of Babylon Sisters; Some Things I Thought I’d Never Do; the Oprah pick What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day… (all of which are available as Sound Library® audiobooks); and I Wish I Had A Red Dress. An accomplished playwright, she teaches playwriting at Spelman College, is a cofounder of the literary magazine Catalyst and writes a column for the Atlanta Tribune. Cleage lives in Atlanta with her husband.
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