Tuesday, November 13, 2012

One Crazy Summer

After reading some hefty themes and story lines in the last book, I needed a bit more of a "lighter" read, and this book is turning out to be...well different from what I expected. 

It tells the story of three young sisters, the oldest one Delphine is only 11.  It begins with an account of a plane ride, their first ever, from Brooklyn, NY to Oakland, CA in the 1960s.  They are visiting their mother Cecil, who left them with their father and grandmother to raise them years ago.  Like the girls, Delphine, Vanetta, and Fern, I didn't know what to expect from Cecil. But who would have guessed that she would be about as happy to see them as she might have felt going to the dentist to get a tooth pulled?  So, plunked into the middle of the Civil Rights movement, complete with the Black Panthers, Afros, and White hatred (especially for Fern's adoration of her "White baby doll), coupled with a mother who's about UN-motherly as a led pencil, these girls seem to be in for quite an experience for the next 27 days.

How would it feel to be unloved by the one person who is supposed to have unconditional love for you?  Well, gladly these girls seem pretty un-phased by the whole thing.  I'm anxious to see how the story evolves, because apparently Cecil is destined to experience a change of her own.  I sure hope so because I'm about ready to throw HER out with the bathwater!

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