Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 1981
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Hardcover, 142pp
- ISBN-13: 9780698205314
- ISBN: 0698205316
Synopsis
Rainbow...
Nobody in the world ever was name that. My mother, Kathie, picked my name. They still waitin for a parent to show at school, and I damn sure won't explain how my mother can't show cause I don't know where she is.
I tell Eljay, who is kinda like my steady, that Miss Josie is my aunt, and how the reason I'm back and forth with her is cause my mother be working a gig outta town. It would be easy to like Miss Josie a lot if I wasn't wise to how people can draw you close, then turn you loose. But no one is close enough for me to tell about my mother.
I am lonesome so regular till it's like a job I gotta report to everyday. I could stay home and take care-a myself, but fourteen is call "minor."
So watcha gonna do?
Annotation
Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.
New York Times Book Review
Rainbow Jordan is a beautiful book.
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If you haven't read this book you're just cheating yourself, whether you be woman,man or child......by Anonymous
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July 08, 2003: I loved this book it was so realistic,really it kind of related to my life. I would not put this book in just the children's catogory,this book was meant for all ages.
So Realisticby Anonymous
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May 20, 2003: This book really does represent mother/daughter abandonment relationships. I would encourage any/everyone to take time out to view what some african american teenage girls have to go throught.
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