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Summary: Single mothers: this is a must read!
Review: This book hits you like a ton of bricks! For all the mothers out there dealing with knuckle head fathers, this book shows you that we are not alone. It portrays 3 fathers and the path they follow to help raise their sons.
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Summary: To be read by all ladies who came up durning the 80's. Great
Review: Flyy Girl was so good I wanted to read it again the author paitns a great picture of the story that he tells. This book brought back so many memories of the 80's. I look forward to other books from this author!!
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Summary: A sspecial tale
Review: For the past decade, Denise Stewart has raised her two sons by herself. A successful businesswoman, the fathers of Denise's two children want to reenter their lives. She also has to deal with her growing relationship with Brock, a truck driver, struggling with his beloved having two kids. Denise has reached a point where she needs to make decisions that will effect her and her children's future. SINGLE MOM is an extremely interesting novel that shows how three black males look upon their roles as husband and father, while emphasizing their reactions and interactions with an empowered woman. Readers will find this family drama to be very interesting, especially the interrelationships between the older males to the children, and everyone's relationship to Denise. More novels like this need to be written. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Somewhat thin. . .
Review: After reading Omar Tyreee's "Single Mom," I felt that it was a good story that deserved a better turn. I will not "bash" Tyree for his admirable efforts, however, much more could have been explored in this rushed novel. Because of the lack of character development for the readers, none of these people seemed worthy of concern. There was little explanation for why an intelligent woman would be involved with Walter. There was no explainig why J.D. would even toy with a child as young as Jamal asking him, "Are you my son?" without marrying the boy's mother. Then he has the nerve to ask her for another child? And the relationship between Denise and Brock was forced. She was a strong woman, and I commend Tyree for that, but I felt that she still tried to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders, and not even the strongest of us can handle that. I felt the same about Tyree's previous works, including Flyy Girl, which I was left in a state of confusion after I read it. There was no explaining the drive of the characters. But he gets better with each book, and next time, I am sure he will get it right.
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Summary: Single Mom Was Cool
Review: I thought Single Mom did a good job of hearing all the sides of the story. It gave you an ideal of how everybody felt. It wasn't better than Flyy Girl but this book was good. Its something that is good to read.
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Summary: Okay Read
Review: The book is okay. I have read other novels by Omar Tyree that were a little more exciting than this one. I was hoping for a few twists and turns. It seems like some of the characters in the book kept dwelling on their pasts rather than looking towards their futures. Also the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" has been repeated too many times in this story which made it kind of boring.
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Summary: It was okay
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This book was okay. Everything that happened in the beginning of the novel, ended up the same way. I kinda hope there would be some type of change of events. I still like it though because I was still interested.
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Summary: The single mother blues
Review: Being a single mother myself I can understand the challenges. I myself have to juggle between my two children, a full time job and being in college full time. But this book is definitely missing something. Sure there are struggles with single mothers from the ghetto. But what exactly are the struggles? This book only gave sparse details. Nothing was told of what happened to Denise and her son when she was left at JD's mother's house after he was sent to prison. Was she put on the streets or did she just move in with her friend and her two kids? This book has too many holes that should have been filled. I mean as long as it was you would think that a little more information would have been included. This is the first book that I've actually read by Tyree but it seems like he tries to go in the minds of women and think like them. There was a good part of the book though. When all the men involved tell the story from their perspectives. But it still does not give enough info. Single mothers have to go through a lot more than what Denise had to. Being a single mother myself I know this. I have been through a lot more and I'm still striving, and I'm not even from the ghetto! There was just not enough spice to this book. It needs a tad bit more flavor. Or maybe Tyree should have actually interviewed a single mother and based the book on a true story or actual facts.
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Summary: 2 Thumbs Up!
Review: This was a good book, it kept me reading and reading. This is the 3rd book I read by Omar Tyree, and I really have enjoyed all three of them: Flyy Girl, For The Love of Money, and Single Mom. Now I am about to read A Do Right Man.
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Summary: PROVOCATIVE
Review: This was the first book I read by Omar, and I found it to be exciting, inspirational, and very surreal. This book is so very personal and the story line is so concrete. It's a process in which an African American woman rises far an above in order to succeed as a woman, mother, student, mentor, lover, and a friend while raising two sons, and dealing with two different men with their own issues as well as not fully involving themselves in their son's lives.
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