another must read recommendation!

Posted in Info, My Blog on 07/24/2009 01:05 pm by Melissa Senate

What must-read novel is next on my bedside table? It just so happens to be this week's Girlfriends Cyber Circuit's touring book, a novel I've been dying to read since I first heard about it from the author herself:

CHILDREN OF THE WATERS by Carleen Brice

Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a shocking secret: her sister is alive.

For years Trish believed that her mother and infant sister had died in a car accident. But the truth is that her mother fatally overdosed and that Trish’s grandparents put the baby girl up for adoption because her father was black.After years of drawing on the strength of her black ancestors, Billie Cousins is shocked to discover that she was adopted. Just as surprising, after finally overcoming a series of health struggles, she is pregnant–a dream come true for Billie but a nightmare for her sweetie, Nick, and for her mother, both determined to protect Billie from anything that may disrupt her well-being.
 
PRAISE FOR CHILDREN OF THE WATERS:
 
“I was exhausted and singing the blues the hour I began Carleen Brice's new novel, Children of the Waters. Five hours later, I'd finished this fresh, free-rein novel about mothers’ secrets and children's sorrows and was shouting 'Hurray!'” – Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

“In Children of the Waters, Carleen Brice deftly explores issues of family, identity, and race with a wonderful abundance of humor, forgiveness, and grace. This moving story of two sisters separated by prejudice will open minds and touch hearts." —Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Wednesday Sisters

Oooh, I cannot wait to read this! Now it's waiting for me this rainy weekend. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Carleen Brice is author of the novels Orange Mint and Honey (which was optioned by the Lifetime Movie Network)- a #1 Denver Post best-seller and Essence Magazine Recommended Read - and Children of the Waters, which One World/​Ballantine will release in June 2009.

You can read more about Carleen's work and an interview with on her website (click on her name above). 

Enjoy!

 

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