What You Owe Me, Bebe Moore Campbell
What You Owe Me, Bebe Moore Campbell
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What You Owe Me

Author: Bebe Moore Campbell

Narrator: Caroline Clay

Unabridged: 22 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/06/2008

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Bebe Moore Campbell is a New York Times best-selling author and an NAACP Image award winner. In What You Owe Me, an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, loss, accountability, and healing, she spans 50 years of African-American history. New to Los Angeles, Hosanna Clark, a farm worker from Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein. Together they build a cosmetics company and a deep friendship. Then Gilda disappears, taking with her the company's assets. The loss leaves Hosanna financially ruined and emotionally damaged. Years later, after her death, Hosanna's daughter will look to collect the debt Gilda owes. In addition to her novels, Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of several nonfiction books including Successful Women, Angry Men, which explores the changing dynamics within families. Narrator Caroline Clay masterfully takes us through the heartaches and the victories of this emotional journey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cheryl on March 20, 2020

This was a great book. Taking back what was stolen from the family. Showing honor for her mother.......more

Goodreads review by E.N. on March 11, 2016

In my opinion, the late great Bebe Moore Campbell was the best at historical fiction. I'm thinking the say way readers prejudge what I write--Christian fiction--as being boring, I once prejudged historical fiction as being boring. But then I read this! Rest in peace, Mrs. Campbell; the legacy of you......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on February 27, 2008

Wow, this book was so absurdly and comprehensively heartwarming! The whole goshdarn cast of white and black characters successfully work through every one of their issues with racial identity / abandoning or overbearing mommies and daddies / generational grudges / discrimination and privilege. Would......more

Goodreads review by La Tonya on November 22, 2022

This book reminds me of people that I know or have known in the past. The baseline of the story is that Hosanna and Gilda went into business together manufacturing hand lotion in Los Angeles in the late 1940's. Gilda was a Holocaust survivor and Hosanna, a black woman, was from Inez, Texas where her......more

Goodreads review by Manisha on April 22, 2012

Story of two women, one black, one Jewess, living in LA right after WWII. They become cautious then close friends, until circumstances set them up for betrayal. We fast forward to present day and follow the story as the consequences of that betrayal play out. Interesting characters, intriguing story......more