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Summary: An excellent read!!
Review: This is a refreshing book about single motherhood that will move all of us toward love for self in addition to taking care of our children. It is not a book of excuses for men's absence from their children's lives, but a way to include them. This book will open our hearts and open our minds on ways to make our world better, beginning with our own families. I don't know where Mr. Tyree may have received his insight into the many sides of single motherhood, but he expressed some of the things I feel and can not express!! He's done an extraordinary job! I just wish the book's title was something different, a title that would attract more men to read it!
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Summary: Not Bad At All
Review: Mr. Tyree does an excellent job of describing single parenthood & the conflicts fathers may have about not being around for their kids. This was a really good book overall. As obnoxious as Walter was, I enjoyed reading about his conflict with his dad and his resolution to resolve it. By book's end, the story started getting old but all-in-all, I'd definitely recommend this book to my book club.
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Summary: This book could be the bible for how to be a good father!
Review: I want to thank Mr. Tyree for putting out a book that shows both sides of the raising of children. It shows from a single mom standpoint as well as the single dad view. It protrayed 3 strong African American men in various stages of parental maturity. The book was clean (without the usually explicit sex that marred Flyy Girl).Good Work!
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Summary: An Inspiring Read for All Parents!
Review: Regardless of your marital status, you will enjoy Single Mom. It is an inspirational tool for parents of all ages. Single Mom encourages single parents (Moms and Dads, especially) to empower themselves and their children. Single men can also benefit from the advice to become positive role models for children in single parent homes, "Be a father to a child."
The title is somewhat deceiving... the book is primarily written from the fathers' perspective. Although their views of parenting are initially narrow, they learn from this amazing Single Mom, Denise Stewart.
Denise is amazing as a strong Black woman who
1) loves the Lord;
2) is devoted to her family (teenage sons, Mom, trifling sister, and neice);
2) shares with her best friend and her children;
3) inspires young Single Moms in the community of all ethnic groups; and
4) desires to love and be loved by a strong Black man.
Although many mothers in Denise's situation would have given up or neglected their families while climbing out of the rut, she maintains her focus. Her friends, family, and eventually the fathers' of her sons respect and admire Denise for her determination and responsibility as a parent. This strong Single Mom does not give up on men... she remains selective (NOT DESPERATE) in choosing a potential mate and positive role model for her sons.
I admire Omar Tyree for his sensitivity to the issues and concerns of families (especially African-American families).
WARNING: Eventhough this novel is categorized as fiction, it is FACTion... real life situations and characters with fictional names.
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Summary: Left something to be desired.
Review: I found this book to be okay....not what I expected after reading Flyy Girl and Capital City. For me, the book didn't really get somewhat interesting until half way through. However, I could relate to the female character in the book. Regardless, Mr. Tyree, has good writing skills. Keep up the good work!
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Summary: Good Story, but too Preachy Down the Stretch
Review: Single Mom was my first exposure to the work of Omar Tyree. The basic storyline revolves around the title character, the two fathers of her two sons, her new romantic interest, and various friends and family. This is a relationship book, and Tyree does a good job with dialogues and evolving character development. I especially appreciated the fact that aside from the trifling younger sister, all the characters had redeeming traits and weakenesses. On the other hand, the constant harping on "community" and schoolwork, while admirable, came off as heavy handed overkill by story's end. In the conclusion, Tyree states he wants this book to be a "spark plug" to initiate a discussion of single parenthood. Seems a bit of reach. In all, a pleasant enough book--but not likely to effect social change.
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Summary: Omar has a good grip on what the single mom has to deal with
Review: I enjoyed all the stories in the book. The storyof Denise trying to get involved in a relationship, the relationships between her and the fathers, her and her family and the relationships between the fathers and their sons and the relationships of the fathers and their significiant others. I think he was trying to describe so many different aspects of the single mom and the fathers. So much to say and so little space to say it all. The ending came quick but if we all use our imagination we could definitely fill in the blanks. Keep up the good work. I look forward to your next book.
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Summary: I kinda dug it-Actually 3 and 3/4 stars is more like it
Review: It was different. Tyree has a sort of laid back, not too literary style that I usually don't go for, I'm more of a cerebral reader, but Single Mom had some good points, I think the Denise Stewart and Brock prose was by far the most real. The thoughts on the two fathers on the other hand left a little too be desired. I think he tried too hard to make the two father's worth something at the end, he wrote like he was in sort of a hurry to finish the novel, everything wrapped up a little too neatly in the last chapter; but overall, it was a nice little break from my more academic reading ventures.
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Summary: Excellent writing, substance and very timely.
Review: Every voice is clearly it's own. Each character could stand on their own. Fine work! Also, I always suggest "Fly Girl" to anyone raising or involved with teenagers. I look at that book as a "guide to raising and being involved with young people." Please keep up the good work. I look forward to your next work.
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Summary: Omar Tyree should read Colin Channer's Waiting In Vain
Review: Single Mom is really disappointing. I've been reading Omar for a while. And although I've never thought of him as a writer of great talents or substance, I've always found his novels good for light entertainment. His novels are junk food for the brain--potato chips or something. But that's all right. As a matter of fact I'm eating some Frito Lays right now. Single Mom gave Omar an opportunity to show some growth. And he hasn't risen to the occasion. The prose is still flat. The characters are thin; and the plot predictable. Omar, take it from a sister who cares: Stop trying to be the male Terri McMillan. She's not a model that serves you well. Terri can't write anymore. Her last two novels, Waiting To Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back were commercial successes but artistic failures. Maybe you should read more Omar. Or maybe you should just read different things. Try reading the work of some of your contemporaries like Kevin Powell or Rohan Preston or Colin Channer. He wrote Waiting In Vain. Now that's a novel. Buy it. Open it. Look and learn.
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