Segregation, War, and Coming of Age in Hall-Crews’ Debut Novel

July 21, 2009 - PRLog -- Well narrated in Ebonic dialect and richly seasoned with soulful, southern, African-American traditions and culture, this tale also shows how Tampa's blacks of the 1950s lived and succeeded in the face of racial restraints that literally cocooned them from white mainstream society.

Brought up on the “straight and narrow” under the authoritarian rule of Gramma Mae, 21-year-old Gerry Withers seeks to break from her grandmother’s stronghold by impulsively marrying a soldier she only recently met while working at the local commissary.

But when her husband is sent to fight in the Korean War, Gerry’s foolish pride keeps her from going back home to the security of Gramma Mae. Instead, Gerry becomes captivated by the wiles of notorious neighborhood playboy, Ben Cash.

Used to a simple life in which bossy grown folks called the shots for her, Gerry quickly finds herself neck-deep in the kind of grown fokes bidniss adults shushed talking about ‘till young ‘uns were clean out of earshot.

Publisher’s website: http://www.eloquentbooks.com/GFBGrownFokesBidniss.html
ISBN: 978-1-60693-907-9

About the Author:                                                                                              
Hall-Crews is a native of Tampa, Florida. She is a public school educator who began writing short stories in 1975. Ms. Hall-Crews was recently inspired to write a novel in her mother’s memory, commemorating her knack for making lemonade from life’s lemons. The author’s future plans include publishing another book entitled, Tea with Aunt Lizzie. GFB is her first published novel.

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