Half a Heart

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$14.00 / $20.00 can. A iJ YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK MIRIAM VENER FEELS TRAPPED IN THE COMFORTABLE WHITE, middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter born in Mississippi in the sixties when Miriam was a civil rights activist. Rosellen Brown charts the emotionally fraught terrain of the mother and daughter's reunion and Ronnee's divided sense of self and loyalty. With which family, and which race, does she identify? A searingly honest növel of public and priváté ideals betrayed, Half a Heart is a deeply moving story about estrangement and intimacy, race and privilege, identity and belonging.

Halfa Heart not only keeps its eventual outcome engagingly in doubt but alsó accomplishes a remarkably evenhanded treatment of its racially charged subject. Somé whites and somé blacks may dislike parts of what they read, which will only demonstrate... Tovább

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$14.00 / $20.00 can. A iJ YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK MIRIAM VENER FEELS TRAPPED IN THE COMFORTABLE WHITE, middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter born in Mississippi in the sixties when Miriam was a civil rights activist. Rosellen Brown charts the emotionally fraught terrain of the mother and daughter's reunion and Ronnee's divided sense of self and loyalty. With which family, and which race, does she identify? A searingly honest növel of public and priváté ideals betrayed, Half a Heart is a deeply moving story about estrangement and intimacy, race and privilege, identity and belonging.

Halfa Heart not only keeps its eventual outcome engagingly in doubt but alsó accomplishes a remarkably evenhanded treatment of its racially charged subject. Somé whites and somé blacks may dislike parts of what they read, which will only demonstrate that Brown is writing very close to the bone." -Paul Gray, Time magaziné "Both Civil Wars and Half a Heart are about conscience as much as anything else: once we've chosen decency, how do we keep choosing it when the definition seems to change with every decade? But while Civil Wars places this discomforting debate at the center of a marriage, Half a Heart tucks it inside a woman's soul and lets it fester there for years____Half a Heart is genuinely powerful, partly because Brown is a fine writer and partly because the reunion, at its core, is about much more than a mother and a daughter." -Laura Shapiro, The New York Times Book Revicw "Like jane Austen, she digs deeper and deeper into the territory she has staked out, always coming up with brilliant new jewels. In all her books, Brown explores intimate family relationships wliile engaging social issues" -Laurie Muchnick, Newsday

Ro sellen Brown is the author of the New York Times bestseller Before and A fter and three other novels, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies, and Civil Wars; a collection of stories, Street Games; and three books of poetry, Somé Deaths in the Delta, Cora Fry, and Cora Fry's Pillow Book. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. Vissza