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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
50’s, finding out that you have a trait for a blood disease
predominately predisposed to black people would shake up
the average person. That’s what happened to Thea Fairbanks
when she went for a prenuptial physical. Thea looks to her
father’s family for answers. She takes her grandmother Emma
Fairbanks on an outing in order to ask more questions about
their family’s past. Colored Summer is taught that her
looks and skin tones are curses from God, punishments for
her mother’s sins of having a child out of wedlock.
Hoping that somewhere the air is lighter, cleaner—blowing
something other than prejudice and hate her way—Emerald
starts her journey to discovery. Leaving behind her life—
the good, a childhood love that will never die, as well as
the bad, a life darkened by intra-racial prejudice—she
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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