Full name: Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad

Author: Bebe Moore Campbell Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780425174746 0425174743

This acclaimed memoir by Bebe Moore Campbell, the bestselling author of Brothers and Sisters and Singing in the Comeback Choir, recalls the sweet summers spent with her father--an extraordinary man of dreams and inspiration--in the American South of the 1960s. "Unforgettable." --New York Times Book Review "Fearlessly unveils the pain of loss and the ecstasy of love. I am grateful for Bebe Moore Campbell and for such a Sweet Summer." --Maya Angelou "Mature insight, as well as a deft gift for language, gives this memoir its poignant, honest shape." --Chicago Tribune "An uplifting reflection on family love." --San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A remarkable achievement." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Poignant...a beautiful tribute." --Newsday "Campbell is a master." --Entertainment Weekly "Touching....[A] candid account and loving tribute to a special man." --New York Daily News Similar books: Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth Black Ice by Lorene Cary The Black Girl Next Door by Jennifer Baszile Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams About My Sisters by Debra Ginsberg What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by E. Lynn Harris The Women Who Raised Me by Victoria Rowell Heavy by Kiese Laymon Migrations of the Heart by Marita Golden Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary L. Bray Parallel Time by Brent Staples The Liars' Club by Mary Karr Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass Borrowed Time by Paul Monette Amateur Night at the Bubblegum Kittikat by Victoria Fedden