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Product Description: At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, Carolyn Wilkins left a disastrous marriage in Seattle and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty working-class town on the edge of Boston...read more
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9780826220110 | Univ of Missouri Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, Carolyn Wilkins left a disastrous marriage in Seattle and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty working-class town on the edge of Boston.
âasha bandele has a poignant story to share in Something Like Beautiful. It is the love that comes through that makes this such a compelling tale.ââNikki Giovanni Award-winning journalist, and author of The Prisonerâs Wife and Daughter, and performance poet featured on HBOâS Def Poetry Jam, asha bandele once again writes from the heart in her lyrical and intimate memoir Something Like Beautifulâa moving story of love, loss, motherhood, and survival. Sharing the story of her struggles as a single black mother in New York City and her tragically self-destructive near-breakdown, asha bears her soul in a book Rebecca Walker, author of Baby Love, calls âcourageous, profound, and achingly beautiful.â
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9780061710377 | Collins, February 1, 2009, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: âasha bandele has a poignant story to share in Something Like Beautiful.
Paperback:
9780061710391 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 19, 2010), cover price $14.99
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