PHILLY WINTER URBAN BOOK FESTIVAL
Leave a commentNovember 26, 2012 by literacymoments
ABOUT KAREN E. QUINONES MILLER:
Karen E. Quinones Miller is the Essence bestselling author of the novels Satin Doll, I’m Telling, Using What You Got, and Uptown Dreams. Visit her on Facebook, follow her on Twitter, or learn more at www.KarenEQuinonesMiller.com.
AN ANGRY-ASS BLACK WOMAN: A NOVEL BASED ON TRUE LIFE…HER LIFE.
Karen E. Quinones Miller’s AN ANGRY-ASS BLACK WOMAN (Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing; October 2, 2012; $15.00) is a sassy, shocking autobiographical novel by Essence bestselling author Karen E. Quinones Miller which captures the racial tensions, the hardships, and the bonds that formed between families and neighbors growing up poor in Harlem.
You’d be angry, too…if you grew up poorer-than-poor in Harlem in the 1960s and 70s, a place of unrelenting violence, racism, crime, rape, scamming, drinking, and drugging…with a dad permanently checked out in Bellevue and a mom at the end of her rope raising you, your twin sister, and your two brothers, moving every time the money runs out—and doing what it takes to survive.
Is this her final chapter? Now, decades later, comatose in a hospital bed after a medical crisis, she reflects on her life—her success as a journalist and renowned author, her tragicomic memories of Harlem, her turbulent marriage, the birth of her daughter, future possibilities—all the while surrounded by her splintered family in all of their sound and fury. Will she rise above once more?
With its sharp sense of realism, AN ANGRY-ASS BLACK WOMAN will leave readers unable to set it down, determined to see it through with Ke-Ke Quinones until the very end of her triumphant story.
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