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If The Creek Don't Rise

Autor Rita Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2007
When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, a headstrong woman who had married the most prominent black landowner in Nebraska and spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South. They reinvented themselves as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier existence elsewhere, leaving Rita as Daisy’s last hope to right the racial wrongs of the past and to make good on a lifetime of thwarted ambition.

If the Creek Don’t Rise tells how Rita found her way out from under this crippling legacy and, instead of becoming "a perfect credit to her race," discovered how to become herself. Set amid the harsh splendor of the Colorado Rockies, this is a gorgeous, ruthless, and unique account of the lies families live—and the moments of truth and beauty that save us.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780156032858
ISBN-10: 0156032856
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: Illustrations with text
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

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PRAISE FOR IF THE CREEK DON’T RISE

"A remarkable memoir . . . Every page allows me to live in her thoughts."—OPRAH WINFREY, O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"It takes a while to recover from this book, which is the most important tribute I can pay it."—LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW —

Notă biografică

Rita Williams is married. She is a mother of four children and a grandmother.She's the second of eight children who grew up in Sacramento, California, where faith overcame her siblings' horrible background in drugs, gangs, and abuse. Retired at sixty, she decided to be a writer. Her first novel, An Angel for Amanda, released on her sixty-first birthday, was a hit. Emma's Secret is her sixth book, the third one in this series.Rita's email: www.rvsparks1960@gmail.com"Forgiveness is a journey."