Breaking the Chain de Frankie Berry Wise

Breaking the Chain

Frankie Berry Wise

N. Jeff Carden III

Breaking the Chain depicts the struggles of five mulatto as they work through their relationships with each other and with the citizens of Cross Town, Georgia. This fictional novel focuses on the Jackson women and how they, as individuals and as a unit, deal with many of their problems-including racial prejudice, socioeconomic disadvantages, molestation, infidelity, and death. Breaking the Chain gives a vivid and descriptive glimpse into the lives of these women as they attempt to preserve the chain that binds them. Breaking the Chain has been adapted into a stage play entitled Broken Promises.

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Frankie Berry Wise is a resident of Tuskegee, Alabama. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, award-winning cook, part-time actress, animal-rights advocate, and avid reader and writer of fiction. Frankie was born and raised in rural Franklin, Georgia where she was provided with the first-hand and insightful knowledge that influences many of her literary works. She is a proud product of the original Mary Hines Johnson Consolidated School that sprung from the original Ebenezer Church School. These schools were the brainchild of Frankie's aunt, Mary Hines Johnson, who was the founder of the first school for black children in Heard County. Frankie was among one of the students, graduating Valedictorian of her senior class. Frankie studied Art History at Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University. She was also an Art Consultant and Educational Advisor for the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program. She loves acting and has had roles in various plays, commercials, and movies- appearing as an extra in The Long Walk Home and Blue Sky. Frankie Berry Wise is the author of Breaking the Chain, Exit, and Broken Promises.