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Atria
August 2006
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Featuring: Jimmie; Crystelle
224 pages
ISBN: 0743277589
EAN: 9780743277587
Hardcover
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Contemporary | Fiction | Multicultural African-American
This profound and intense debut novel is the story of a
young African American woman from West Philadelphia who
finds her path to a bright future in gentrified Brooklyn,
New York, blocked when she can't let go of the love she
lost. Crystelle has a well-employed fiancé and a
life in New York City that most young professionals would
envy. She has come a long way from skipping rope on the
cracked sidewalks of the rough Philadelphia neighborhood
where she was raised by a loving mother and grandfather. She
experienced good times and bad in equal measure in a
community where people worked, played, and sometimes fought
hard too. She didn't leave the past behind her though. A
ghost from those West Philly days haunts her, a spirit whose
presence in her dreams is as welcome as it is unsettling.
That spirit is Jimmie, her high school sweetheart -- the one
who she watched get gunned down one hot, unforgettable night
all those years ago. Unnerved by her dreams of Jimmie
and the suspicion that she may be pregnant, Crystelle takes
a train back to her old neighborhood to reconnect with
friends and family. There, with the help of Jimmie's mother
-- a woman who Crystelle loves like family and who makes a
prison visit to the young man who murdered her son --
Crystelle comes to grips with the memory that haunts her and
learns the power of forgiveness and the need to move on.
With its deeply resonant depictions of urban African
American life and the cultural forces that challenge and
sustain their communities, Crystelle Mourning is a
triumphant, lyrical beginning to a bright new talent in fiction.
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