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Kensington Urban
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Featuring: Thea Fairbanks; Emma Fairbanks
254 pages
ISBN: 1599830116
EAN: 9781599830117
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Women's Fiction | Multicultural African-American
Although attitudes have changed considerably since the 50βs, finding out that you have a trait for a blood disease predominately predisposed to black people would shake up the average person. Thatβs what happened to Thea Fairbanks when she went for a prenuptial physical. Thea looks to her fatherβs family for answers. She takes her grandmother Emma Fairbanks on an outing in order to ask more questions about their familyβs past. Colored Summer is taught that her looks and skin tones are curses from God, punishments for her motherβs sins of having a child out of wedlock. Hoping that somewhere the air is lighter, cleanerβblowing something other than prejudice and hate her wayβEmerald starts her journey to discovery. Leaving behind her lifeβ the good, a childhood love that will never die, as well as the bad, a life darkened by intra-racial prejudiceβshe comes out west, where the air is indeed blowing differently. For Emerald, who changes her name to Emma, it is blowing white and she finds herself in a new life, with a new identity. But can she cut loose her past and the tie that binds her heart; can she forget where she came from?
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