Your Blues - Use W22659

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Chicago-born Armstrong Todd is fifteen, black, and unused to the segregated ways of the Deep South when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in her native rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman, Armstrong pays the ultimate price when her husband, brother-in-law, and father-in-law decide to teach him a lesson. Often painful but always absorbing, this is a compelling and powerful novel written with simple eloquence by one of America's finest black novelists.

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Bebe Moore Campbell was the author of severalNew York Timesbestsellers:Brothers and Sisters;Singing in the Comeback Choir;What You Owe Me, which was also aLos Angeles TimesBest Book of 2001; and72 Hour Hold. Her other works include the novelYour Blues Aint Like Mine, which was aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for literature. Bebe Moore Campbell died in 2006.