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Light Bread, a first novel by Cordell Adams, weaves a lovely story around the tumultuous 1960s in his creation of Veola Cook--a brave, Black earth mother of wisdom, warmth and wit.
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September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Featuring: Veola Cook
280 pages ISBN: 098168050X EAN: 9780981680507 Paperback
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Fiction | Multicultural African-American
Veola Cook is on a mission to solve some strange and spooky
events that began before dawn on Easter in her neighborhood.
While investigating, one of her neighbors calls her the
nosiest old woman in Parkerville, Texas, and hangs up on
her. But Veola remains undaunted, determined to keep
questioning folks until she learns what scratched at her
window, how trash got dumped on her front porch, and who is
meeting whom in the nearby yard in the middle of the night. As the week progresses, she gathers information from
her closest friends and relatives and the families for whom
she keeps house as quickly as she doles out off-the-cuff,
common-sense advice to anyone within earshot—solicited or
not. Her motto comes from experience not a textbook: you see
it, you live it, you teach it—in that order. Veola’s
investigative leads include links between a good-for-nothing
man she knows and the daughter of a deceased friend, and an
employer’s teenage son keeping company with one of her shady
neighbors. One night when her house is broken into, she
battles her intruder until he flees. The police find no
leads, so she keeps sleuthing. In broad daylight the robber
returns, and Veola’s enemy helps her catch him, which tests
her relationship with her inner circle. The South in the late 1960s provides the perfect
backdrop for this slice-of-life story of a domestic with
insatiable curiosity, a respect for and interest in keeping
any man on the right track, a healthy sense of humor, and a
desire to fill everyone’s bellies. Veola sweeps us into her
world and shows what can be accomplished with an
eleventh-grade education, the gift of gab, a cast-iron
skillet, and a worn-out Bible.
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