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Title: Eden by Olympia Vernon ISBN: 0-8021-1728-7 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Art Form
Comment: While reading Eden, I could hear Olympia Vernon's voice through her style, tuning every word like an instrument. I see strength in these characters. It is what they find their strength in that is different; this is a place that haunts them, hurts them or may heal them. Each character needs to find strength just to get by in their life walk. We can spy on them through Maddy; she is in the midst of adolescence, finding her own areas of strength to get by. She is growing up by visualizing and feeling the gut revelations that we all learn from family. Through watching the lives of those around her, Maddy sees that love, strength and truth do not always exist together in the same places. It is such a real to life revelation how family teaches us disappointment. There is also a strong sense of longing throughout Eden. Pip displays this longing. I love her name; it is like a flashback to how she used to be lively and exciting. She was once a free spirited beauty who found her strength in men. This caused her to betray her own sister Faye, and so she must live and die as an outcast from her family. What was once strength in her life cheated her by giving her loneliness. Mama Faye finds her strength in Jesus. This helps her function as a savior to her family. She needs His strength to overcome her husband's ways and heal the past hurt of betrayal. Chevrolet seems to find his strength in avoiding mama's Jesus. He gets messed up in the Jesus of the world, who seems to always be after him. He gambles with Jesus so much that his life is always on the line. Eden is a peek into rural southern living, filled with mystery and anticipation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eden: A New Gift to the African-American Canon
Comment: Olympia Vernon has certainly marked her space on the map with Eden. The entire book sings like music. Every line, every chapter is indelible--like an ongoing paean that praises and celebrates life, love, loss, forgiveness, death, God, pain, nature, disease and the awe of body--the physical journeys it takes. I found the language as bare-boned as Hemingway. Quick, clean, sharp and vivid. Even cancer resonates as a "character" in the novel. I was enamored with the simplest "sharing" in the book and that was Maddy. Though a rift eases in between two sisters, Faye and Aunt Pip, the child is still allowed to go to her aunt. Could that in some manner be a gesture of forgiveness? The one and only frail part about the novel is plot. However, the characters, structure, language, magical-realism and overall theme of the work deems it all the more rich. I hope this young author continues to contribute good, qualified, "seriously imaginative" literature to the African-American canon. I think she will keep the map strong. Highly recommended!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Southern Revelations
Comment: I had the opportunity to meet Olympia personally,
but sleep got the best of me. But my sister and
niece did go at 12:00 a.m. and talked to her one
on one and got my personally autographed copy.
I had the experience to visit Birmingham, AL with
The Church of Christ, which presented the perfect
opportunity to read EDEN. The southern atmosphere
made the book come alive.
I found it fascinating how a young girl eyes were
able to see so much in-depth in each character. I never
though a young girl knew so much. Infact, I didn't
know they cursed so much and spoke with unprofound
innocence.
I guess prostitutes do have a life,lasting girl friend
relationships and family members who still love
them in spike of. But I have heard they do make
the best wives.
Her description of cancer and it's effect on the
individual and those surrounding them, was quite
deep.
I had to put my mind into the 14yr. old and continue
to read. I guess I am so use to reading about adults or
children who grow up into adults and the story line
then takes off into their lives.
I loved the nicknames. Family members will give
you names only the family knows about.
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Title: Reframing the Path to School Leadership by Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal ISBN: 0761946071 Publisher: Corwin Press Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Educators as Learners: Creating a Professional Learning Community in Your School by Penelope Jo Wald, Michael S. Castleberry ISBN: 0871203669 Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End by John Willinsky ISBN: 0816630771 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Norman Rockwell : A Life by Laura Claridge ISBN: 0812967232 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Art For Beginners by Dani Cavallaro, Daniel Cavallaro ISBN: 0863162657 Publisher: Writers & Readers Pub. Date: 21 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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