![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Diane McKinney-Whetstone richly evokes the early 1960s in west Philadelphia in this spicy story of loss and healing, redemption and love. As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her boyfriend's father. Though Mae is filled with syrupy names like "pudding" and "doll face" for the foster girls, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. The girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens they are living in foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. He disappears and is presumed dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival. William Morrow & Company, 24 (288pp) ISBN 978-4-9 With overreaching prose and overwhelming family tangles, McKinney-Whetstone's return to. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. ![]() ![]()
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