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Seen It All and Done the Restby Pearl Cleage |
Gwendolyn Waring: Pearl Cleage has established a
wonderful faux community in Atlanta. Her novels build on characters introduced in earlier
books. She writes about contemporary issues in the black community with great flair. The
'depth' of her stories come from the interaction of the characters with those issues.
She observes black culture and presents it in engaging and sometimes controversial
fiction. I have enjoyed all of her books and anxiously await her next novel.
Rating: ****
Judy Stanton: "Seen It All and Done the Rest" is a
light, breezy read that had some interesting characters. I liked the fact that
it was set in Atlanta, and that is showed family members of different generations
working together for a cause, each in her own way. Focusing on the grandmother/grand daughter
relationship was fine, but the mother was MIA with no explanation...and issues facing
the grand daughter are a major crisis one day and, seemingly, hardly even mentioned
the next. The short chapters and dialog made it an easy read. Having read this after
some really involved, compelling novels, I found this to be lacking depth and purpose.
Rating: ***
