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{WARNING: in case any literary critics and english teachers are reading this please forgive my laziness and slight use of ebonics}

:P

"Getting Mother's Body" (GMB)is 1 of THE GREATs--an offbeat, refreshing, tastefully done read,that I so desperately wish there were more of in African American fiction.

(lemme mention~~I am an avid reader who is not easily impressed)

Featuring colourful storytelling spliced with comedic moments, the tale unweaves itself circa 40s or 50s {forgive me I cant remember exactly which 1) in a laid-back, familiar country setting. The book focuses on
accounts of a black,not-so-traditional family with traditional values: including one central character--a young, sassy, determined black chik whose biological parents died (as the title suggests) or have disappeared---who winds up pregnant by a married man [which sparks the chain of events that carry us thru the story. OoOoh Drama!

I read GMB a few years ago, and I remember because it was a summer novel
I found before hurricane katrina ravaged my New Orleans home. I recall scouring the N.O. library online catalog [go figga] for something 'different.' I clicked a list of 'award winning' labels & copped this book after seeing the description. LOL & voila, I had an entertaining book.

I'm surprised not to have seen many people suggesting
this book in the many amazon.com aa-fiction booklists or online book enthusiats I frequent! Perhaps I'm just late to discover it? Dang..the lady IS a Pulitzer Prize winning African American writer {p/s I'm wondering if she is related to Gordon Parks}!

Anyways Getting Mother's Body is not your run-of-the-mill aa-fiction piece. In today's times where 'thugism' and 'ghetto-fabulousism' and violence serve as afterschool 'daytime tv treats' and kiddie reading-----i mean has any1 checked out that tv series "first 48?" that crap is bananas! I have not capitalized the show's title because I think it's disgusting that people find the exploitation of death [and i mean exploited to the 100th degree real personal]---& human-suffering
"edifying must-see tv;" PLUS the fact that the victims & alleged perpetrators are mostly young black men-now add that to the number of tv shows and movies bombarding our brains with VIOLENCE, death and CRIME-trial-based content...Is it even a surprise that our kids are committing many violent crimes? or are these shows adverstisements for crime and the billion $ judicial system??? I know i lived in N.O. the murda capital blah blah blah.... but who da hell ok'd this show????

*sigh* lemme' get off my soapbox b/c i watched the show a few times

We as parents, community members, role-models for every1 need to review and address our standards for quality literary and tv content. GMB should be required h. s. {or college} reading, along with dead 'great American' {white} authors. I am starting my crusade to alert other readers and possibly educators about some quality AA fiction that goes unnoticed. Here on amazon.com I shall be highlighting a few of the not-so-well-known publications by AAA, which showcase excellent storylines and life lessons intertwined with home-grown 'flava.'

Hope you enjoy reading "Getting Mother's Body"

nah go read!


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Getting Mother Body Suzanlori Parks 9780965754880 Books Reviews

Susan-Lori Parks' Getting Mother's Body is an entertaining story of Billy Beede, a pregnant sixteen year old who is convinced that she must travel from Texas to Arizona and dig up her mother's grave to claim the jewels she is buried with. The only problem is, she has no money and no way of getting there. How she gets there, and the people she lies to, cheats on, and cons make up this uproarious read. Parks' novel is narrated by a number of characters, some central, some not and its just a fun, funny read. Parks is certainly creative and a skilled writer. Have fun with this one.
Great book. Parks is a masterful storyteller.
I need to start out by saying that I LOVED this book by Suzan-Lori Parks. Really loved it. The first 30 or so pages didn't start of particularly well for me and I wasn't sure I was going to like it but I pushed through and I am glad I did because it truly was an excellent book. A great combination of tragedy, folly, and comedy. Well written in what I would call great bursts of writing, the author tells the story of what can only be referred to as a family and a loose confederation of people on the road to recover what they think is "buried treasure" in the form of jewels that were buried with one Willa Mae Beede upon her death. The protagonist here--her daughter Billy Beede--is a knocked up 16 year old girl who isn't sure if she wants to keep her baby or get an abortion but she knows one thing for sure and that is she needs money. All of the characters in this small Texas town are poor as poor can be. So Billy comes up with this idea to go find her mother who she believes was buried with a pearl necklace and diamond ring, unearth her body, and sell the jewels for money. Unfortunately, getting to this small town is no small task and it appears many others have the same idea including her Uncle and one-legged Aunt, Willa Mae's lesbian lover Dill, and several others including a distant cousin Laz who they met on the way to dig up mom. A really well written book that will leave you alternately laughing and crying but also realizing that when someone is so poor, they would resort to almost anything they think is realistic to pull themselves out of poverty.
{WARNING in case any literary critics and english teachers are reading this please forgive my laziness and slight use of ebonics}

P

"Getting Mother's Body" (GMB)is 1 of THE GREATs--an offbeat, refreshing, tastefully done read,that I so desperately wish there were more of in African American fiction.

(lemme mention~~I am an avid reader who is not easily impressed)

Featuring colourful storytelling spliced with comedic moments, the tale unweaves itself circa 40s or 50s {forgive me I cant remember exactly which 1) in a laid-back, familiar country setting. The book focuses on
accounts of a black,not-so-traditional family with traditional values including one central character--a young, sassy, determined black chik whose biological parents died (as the title suggests) or have disappeared---who winds up pregnant by a married man [which sparks the chain of events that carry us thru the story. OoOoh Drama!

I read GMB a few years ago, and I remember because it was a summer novel
I found before hurricane katrina ravaged my New Orleans home. I recall scouring the N.O. library online catalog [go figga] for something 'different.' I clicked a list of 'award winning' labels & copped this book after seeing the description. LOL & voila, I had an entertaining book.

I'm surprised not to have seen many people suggesting
this book in the many aa-fiction booklists or online book enthusiats I frequent! Perhaps I'm just late to discover it? Dang..the lady IS a Pulitzer Prize winning African American writer {p/s I'm wondering if she is related to Gordon Parks}!

Anyways Getting Mother's Body is not your run-of-the-mill aa-fiction piece. In today's times where 'thugism' and 'ghetto-fabulousism' and violence serve as afterschool 'daytime tv treats' and kiddie reading-----i mean has any1 checked out that tv series "first 48?" that crap is bananas! I have not capitalized the show's title because I think it's disgusting that people find the exploitation of death [and i mean exploited to the 100th degree real personal]---& human-suffering
"edifying must-see tv;" PLUS the fact that the victims & alleged perpetrators are mostly young black men-now add that to the number of tv shows and movies bombarding our brains with VIOLENCE, death and CRIME-trial-based content...Is it even a surprise that our kids are committing many violent crimes? or are these shows adverstisements for crime and the billion $ judicial system??? I know i lived in N.O. the murda capital blah blah blah.... but who da hell ok'd this show????

*sigh* lemme' get off my soapbox b/c i watched the show a few times

We as parents, community members, role-models for every1 need to review and address our standards for quality literary and tv content. GMB should be required h. s. {or college} reading, along with dead 'great American' {white} authors. I am starting my crusade to alert other readers and possibly educators about some quality AA fiction that goes unnoticed. Here on I shall be highlighting a few of the not-so-well-known publications by AAA, which showcase excellent storylines and life lessons intertwined with home-grown 'flava.'

Hope you enjoy reading "Getting Mother's Body"

nah go read!