Till You Hear From Me, Pearl Cleage
Till You Hear From Me, Pearl Cleage
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Till You Hear From Me

Author: Pearl Cleage

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Mirron Willis

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2010


Synopsis

Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon, is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. The Rev’s stinging words and myopic views don’t sound anything like the man who raised Ida. When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on.

Back in her old West End neighborhood, Ida runs into childhood friend and smooth political operator Wes Harper, also in town to pay a visit to the Reverend Dunbar, his mentor. While Ida and the Rev try to find the balance between personal loyalties and political realities, they must do some serious soul searching in order to get things back on track before Wes permanently derails their best laid plans.

About The Author

Pearl Cleage is the author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . , an Oprah’s Book Club selection; Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do, a Good Morning America Read This! book club pick; Babylon Sisters, for which she was named the 2006 Go On Girl! Book Club Author of the Year; Baby Brother’s Blues, winner of the 2006 NAACP Image Award and the African American Literary Award for fiction; and Seen It All and Done the Rest. The first author selected for the Essence Book Club, she collaborated with her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett, Jr., on the poem We Speak Your Names. She is also an accomplished dramatist whose plays include Flyin’ West, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and A Song for Coretta. Cleage and her husband live in Atlanta.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gypsy

Okay, hands down, Pearl Cleage is my favorite author of the last few years. I have yet to read anything of hers that wasn’t topnotch. She weaves a story like no one else. I first came to love her writing with What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day and have read and loved every novel she has writte......more

Goodreads review by Toni

My co-workers have heard ad nauseum about how excited I was to read this book. It starts out in D.C. (where I grew up) then moves to the West End neighborhood of Atlanta (where I live now) and even has a minor character named Toni (who is nothing like me, but makes me happy anyway). Thanks, Pearl! Af......more

Goodreads review by Tina

Terrific I truly enjoyed this book. I believe the ending could have been a little better. It was an easy and quick read. You understood the plot.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

This was the first book that I've read by Pearl Cleage. I thought it was okay. The book is all about politics. Ida, one of the main characters, worked hard to help President Obama get elected, but she doesn't end up with a job at the White House after all. Meanwhile, her father, affectionately known......more

Goodreads review by Missy

This was my first Pearl Cleage book. Unfortunately on page 18 she mentioned a "super nigger". What is that person exactly Ms. Cleage? Did the phrase enhance your writing? I don't think so. This novel is set in Atlanta 2008 and managed to have an Ida B, Flora, Iona and Fannie Lu. Those names were dra......more