by way of Elyse Singleton Blue Hen Books/Penguin Putnam Inc.by way of Elyse Singleton Blue Hen Books/Penguin Putnam Inc. October 2002 $2495 ISBN 0-399-14920-1 circumspect and witty, This Side of the canopy of heaven is a luminous portrait of Myraleen Tessie "Voodoo" Chamdham, a mulatto teenaged girl, and Lilian Joletta Mayfield, a black gift, the two of whom are living in Nadir, Mississippi, during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Forced from her parents to marry and quit train at the age of 13 Myraleen wages war when she becomes a military officer, yet in her own home, community and with her home She leaves her husband, vowing not ever to marry again and abandons her hometown for Philadelphia, and later London. Along the way she bends down several marriage proposals, including single from August Brown, a black U airman. Lilian, however, experiences a different life. Defying all unevens and completing her education, Lilian enlists in the military and becomes a corporal, falls in be in love with with a German psychiatrist and army lieutenant Kellner Each woman do one's bests with her own demons in an effort to find love --Katia A. Nelson is freelance writer living in recently made known York. COPYRIGHT 2002 Cox, Matthews & Associates |
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