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Title: Floating : A Novel by NICOLE BAILEY WILLIAMS ISBN: 0-7679-1564-X Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Bravo for Floating!
Comment: Nicole Bailey-Williams' novel is very interesting. The shift between peoetry and narration is wonderful. Nicole has managed to write little pieces of how women feel when they do not love themselves or have not been loved by others. It is really a powerful book and it shows, in brutal honesty, the result of cycles of un-love in families. It was funny, it was sexy and sad all at once. Thank you for these characters! I look forward to your next book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!!!!
Comment: This is an excellent book. Nicole Bailey-Williams is truly a gifted writer. If you had the opportunity to read her first novel, and enjoyed it as much as I did, you definitely want to pick up a copy of "Floating". The author is a great writer and storyteller and she did an excellent job with character development in her sophomore effort. Nicole is a rising star in the literary scene.
Rating: 5
Summary: In the Space Between
Comment: The concept of the tragic mullato is not a new one in literature; its figure has been used numerous times to characterize that person caught between worlds, caught between cultures, and caught between black and white. Nicole Bailey Williams uses this concept in her sophomore effort, FLOATING, but updates it, breathes new life into it, and drives it home in a fresh, raw way.
Shanna, the narrator, tells her story in short, lyrical chapters, beginning from the first time she realized she was different as a child to her confusing adulthood. As a biracial woman, she faces many obstacles in her life, including name-calling, pre-judgment, self-mutilation, and heartbreak.
When she was a young child, Shanna's white mother abandoned her and her black father. Though her father was no saint himself, as an adult Shanna comes to realize why he behaves the way he does. Likewise, she begins to remember the times when her mother was her world and the anger she felt toward her mother after being abandoned.
I was enraptured by Shanna's story; though a fairly short book, FLOATING is packed with content. I was taken by the way the author interspersed poetry into the flow of the story. Rhythmic and inviting, poignant and heartbreaking, lyrical and lilting, FLOATING is one of the best books I have read this year. Bailey Williams' writing is sensational, and I am anticipating more fine work from her.
Reviewed by CandaceK
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Title: Better Than I Know Myself by Donna Grant, Virginia DeBerry ISBN: 0312273096 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Leaving Cecil Street (MCKINNEYWHETSTONE, DIANE) by Diane McKinney-Whetstone ISBN: 0688163858 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Honey Well by Gloria Mallette ISBN: 075820468X Publisher: Dafina Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: In My Bedroom by Donna Hill ISBN: 0312281935 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: When Did You Stop Loving Me : A Novel by VERONICA CHAMBERS ISBN: 0385509006 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 25 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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