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Only Twice I'Ve Wished for Heaven (Paperback)
- Author: Dawn Turner Trice
- Publisher: Anchor Books
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In 1975 young Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of rich black soil carved out of a Chicago ghetto, cradling sparkling apartment towers where the elite of black professionals live behind a ten-foot-high, ivy-covered fence. But 11-year-old Temmy is drawn to the world outside the fence, to 35th Street, a place of colorful, often dangerous characters. This story of love, revenge, and murder takes place in 1975 and is told from the point of view of Tempestt Saville, an 11-year-old girl whose family has just been chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of rich, black soil carved out of a Chicago ghetto. Only an ivy-covered, wrought-iron fence separates this haven for elite black urban professionals from the housing projects and row upon row of battered brownstones on the other side. Temmy finds this second landscape more intriguing and is a clear-eyed witness to the flavorful contrasts, the social ambiguities, and the tragic ironies separating the two cultures.
Features
- Genre: Architecture, Fiction & Literature Genres, Fiction & Literature Themes, House & Home, True Crime
- Subgenre: Conflicts & Dualities, Domestic, Family & Friendship, General, Human Qualities & Behavior, Literary Genres & Types of Novels, Murder / General, Peoples & Cultures, Settings, Society & Social Issues, Stages of Life
- Date Published: March 01, 1998
- Release Date: March 01, 1998
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Author: Dawn Turner Trice
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-10-3278
- ASIN: B002TILOHY
- Catalog #: 11602736
- ISBN: 9780385491235
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.75 inches length x 5 inches width x 0.75 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.60 pound.
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Reviewer: Maya Angelou
"'Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven' is about fascinating people during turbulent times. Dawn Turner Trice has written a complicated story, beautifully."
Reviewer: Gloria Naylor
"Dawn Turner Trice is indeed gifted. She writes beautifully, but above all, she writes deeply. I've read passages over the phone to friends, and I cried when I finished reading the book."
Reviewer: Charles Johnson
"Dawn Turner Trice is a brilliant storyteller whose fictional world overflows with vivid, memorable characters. 'Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven' is one of the strongest, most satisfying literary debuts I've seen in years."
Reviewer: Ruth Coughlin, (New York Times Book Review)
"...a touching and memorable book."
