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HarperTorch
April 2005
376 pages
ISBN: 0060750308
EAN: 9780060750305
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Romance Contemporary
Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest
Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss,
Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world
of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. But
their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative
catering business collapses. He disappears and is presumed
dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. The
girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens
they are living in foster care in a working-class
neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected
card shark. Though Mae is filled with syrupy names like
"pudding" and "doll face" for the foster girls, she is
abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something
stunning beauty. As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and
her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to
keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her
boyfriend's father.
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