Rating: Summary: Would definitely recommend this book Review: This is the first book I have read by Bebe Moore Campbell and I am looking to read "Your Blues Aint Like Mine". Brothers and Sisters was truly excellent. I really captures the difference between black and whites, especially in one of the heated moments in our history. I've had this book sitting on the shelf for a long time, my only regrett that it took so long to read it.
Rating: Summary: This is a fabulous book which should be read by all American Review: This novel is important for many reasons. It is enjoyable, enticing, funny, gripping. Besides all that, it teaches Americans, especially white Americans, about some of the subtle aspects of modern-day racism against African-Americans.I have recommended it to many adult students of all ethnicities. Every one has loved it!!!
Rating: Summary: One of the BEST books that I have ever read! Review: This one hits all the dilemmas of an African-American woman in middle management in corporate America - developing white friendships, being torn in those friendships when race becomes a factor, the fine-line definitions of sexual harassment, trying to help and hire other African-Americans, trying to support other African-Americans who have "made it" and may have forgotten how to help others, develpong romantic relationships with men with lesser educational backgrounds, trying to understand the African-American male preference for the white women, dealing with how much power one doesn't have in the final analysis - it's all there. A great book!
Rating: Summary: Enjoyed!! Starts off slow, but ended great!! Thanks Bebe! Review: This was my first time reading Bebe Moore Campbell's work. Everyone can relate to Brothers & Sisters. The book focuses on race relations, friendships, and relationships. I'm looking forward to reading more of Bebe's work.
Rating: Summary: A Wonderful and Painfully Realistic Contemporary Novel Review: This was the first book that I have read by Ms. Campbell and I have recently finished "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine" It is a brilliant novel about the challenges that a successful African-American Woman deals with in life both professionally and personally. At the Office, Esther deals with condescending co-workers, amongst them Mallory Post, a well meaning but painfully naive lender, Kirk Madison a shrewd executive who always seems to fall behind in his work and bills, and Humphrey Boone, a handsome Bank President trying to deal with his own family demons as well as two bank tellers, Lakeesha, a single mother who graduated from a Work Training Project, and Hector, a polite Hispanic who wants desperately go get ahead and works hard at his various jobs to do so.
However, when Humphrey falls for Mallory and dates her much to Esther's anger and mortification not to mention the Bank being involved in a Sexual Harassment Scandal not to mention a Embezzlement Sting Operation all the characters have to deal with their own personal demons. Mallory has to learn that you can't always get approval from the men in your life, Humphrey has to deal with his own insecurities about being a dark-skinned black man not to mention he is still a black man playing the white boy's game and Esther has to deal with being so judgemental towards the people in her life and most of all, what really makes people "Brothers And Sisters"
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Rating: Summary: Definite recommend--- touches everyone Review: Wonderful book; downhome style of J. California Cooper with the intellectual eye of a social anthropologist. My only regret is not having read it sooner. An open and unselfish mind will close this book and see their circumstances and others with new courage
Rating: Summary: THE BOOK THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SMILLING FOR A LONG TIME Review: You go Bebe! This book is the BOMM! I couldn't put it down even when I had to get off the subway! I'ts like evey page keeps calling you to the next! By the time you put it down, your perspective on life and friends will have changed! You fall in love with the characters, identify with the plots and you won't stop smilling until you've read all of that book! I't's everything a book should be. Buy it and enjoy my brothers and sisters! All ya'll!
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