This Day's Madness

Rating:
Summary: Well earned award winner!
Review: Bravo to the Arizona Authors Association for recognizing This Day's Madness as one of the top novels submitted for consideration in 2003. Sandra Bowen's tale of Frankie Thomasena Halcon begins as a babe born to trapeze artist parents in 1925. Readers become part of her life as she deals with so many unfair issues while transitioning into a young adult. It's a poignant story offering dispair, sadness, hope, and happiness. I enjoyed every word!

Rating:
Summary: A Must Read
Review: This Day's Madness is an amazing novel. The picture it offers of both black and white society in the American south, in the not so distant past, is an eye opener. The book tears at one's heartstrings, and at the same time raises one sense of social justice to the highest level.

It's a book with appeal for everyone -- young and old, ethnic or non-ethnic. In short, it's a book for all thinking people.

I'm grateful to Sandra Bowen, the author, for writing such a wonderful book.

Rating:
Summary: Quite Possibly One of the Best Novels I've Ever Read
Review: When I finished reading "This Day's Madness", I wanted to start reading it all over again -- and I did. I love this book. It brought tears to my eyes and touched me with feeling and understanding such as I have not been touched before. To realize the reality and ignorance of a time gone by... and the manipulation of Frankie... to witness her innocence and belief in people!...then to see how it diminished a little... Anyone who is interested in reading the author's rendition of a taste of the old south and reading a touching and EXTREMELY ENGROSSING tale of a young girl's journey in life after the death of her parents, MUST read "THIS DAY'S MADNESS". I eagerly await a sequel.