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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
by Bebe Moore Campbell
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Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (June 27 1995)
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Chapter 1
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, rain, as any blessing ever prayed for. Lily woke up when the singing began. She lay quiet and still in her bed until her head was full of songs and the strong voices of the fieldworkers from the Pinochet

Author Q&A
The realities of racism effect each individual living in America in a different way. Whether the person realizes it or not, racism plays a part in how people view each other, how they treat each other, and how they live amongst each other.



Book Description

“Intriguing.. .A thoughtful, intelligent work... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush.... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement.... Campbell has a strong creative voice.”

About the Author

Bebe Moore CampbellBebe Moore Campbell

Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for literature.

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