The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, Susan Gregg Gilmore
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, Susan Gregg Gilmore
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
A Novel

Author: Susan Gregg Gilmore

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/17/2010

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn't stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them servants because they are black. When Bezellia has a clandestine romance with Nathaniel's son, whites and blacks unite in fury at the young couple. In a world too neatly ordered by status, wealth, and skin color, Bezellia becomes a rebel who, while seeking the love her real family has not been able to provide, unearths and upends some secrets and assumptions that a lot of people would rather stay hidden.

About Susan Gregg Gilmore

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novel Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. Susan lives in Tennessee with her husband and three daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stacy on January 21, 2016

Let me start this review by saying... THIS BOOK WAS AN AMAZING HEART WRENCHING BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN MASTERPIECE OF FORBIDDEN LOVE!!! Whoa, now that I got that out of my system I will tell you why I love this book so much. I live in the country where there is still a lot of closed minded racist people......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 18, 2016

Nice and easy Southern Chick Lit. No new ground is covered here, just an easy and entertaining story. Sometimes that is just what is needed.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on August 06, 2011

Bezellia Grove is an young and affluent Southern girl who has inherited her unusual name from a long line of affluent Bezellias. But this Bezellia is more than she appears and is living a most unusual life behind the closed doors of her plantation style home in Tennessee. Though she’s passionate and......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on December 10, 2010

This is the year for me to read books revolving around the South in the 60's - and each book is good in it's own way, and has its own faults. The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove was an interesting enough book - the main character, Bezellia, was likeable enough, her mom was horrible enough, her dad wa......more

Goodreads review by Anne (Booklady) on November 15, 2011

I don’t get the Title: THE IMPROPER LIFE OF BEZELLIA GROVE. Could it be that Bezellia Grove bucks the “gentile” South of the 1960’s by her relationships with the poor boy from the other side of the lake? Or that she sees Mazelle Cooper and Nathaniel Stephenson as people rather than servants to the “......more

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