Diane McKinney-Whetstone. (2015). Tempest Rising. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Diane McKinney-Whetstone. 2015. Tempest Rising. Recorded Books, Inc.

Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Tempest Rising. Recorded Books, Inc, 2015.

Diane McKinney-Whetstone. Tempest Rising. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2015.

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Award-winning author of the national best-seller Tumbling, Diane McKinney-Whetstone is an immensely talented author of African American fiction. It is 1965 in Philadelphia and Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living a financially privileged life. But when Finch's business falls on hard times and Clarise suffers a mental breakdown, their idyllic world is shattered and their daughters are endangered.

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   • content: Susan Spain hits one out of the ballpark with her performance. This novel chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of an African- American family in Philadelphia during the mid-1960s. The bulk of the story deals with the third generation of the family, three sisters. While Spain fails to give any of the characters a glimmer of the distinctive accent spoken by most Philadelphians, she gives the sisters and the people they meet through their reversal of fortune articulate and distinctive voices. Her compassionate narration caresses both our ears and this well-crafted work. P.R. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
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     February 2, 1998
     With overreaching prose and overwhelming family tangles, McKinney-Whetstone's return to black Philadelphia, this time in the 1960s, never quite lives up to the promise of her debut, Tumbling. Raised by her affectionate, idiosyncratic aunts and uncles after her mother's death, middle-class Clarise elopes with a poor but talented cook named Finch, and together they open their own successful catering business. Soon, three beautiful daughters--Shern, Victoria and Bliss--complete their vision of bourgeois happiness, but the repeal of Jim Crow laws lures their best customers away to white catering chains, and Finch dies in a last-ditch effort to save his faltering business. Already fragile, Clarise is hospitalized with a breakdown. When an old criminal conviction denies custody of the girls to the aunts and uncles, the children are placed in a nightmarish foster home run by compulsive gambler Mae and her adult daughter, Ramona. The children's and adults' lives are complicated by various betrayals: Mae abuses Ramona's credit; Ramona's boyfriend, Tyrone, finds comfort with another woman (while Ramona pines for Tyrone's father); and Mae's favorite cousin sexually assaults Shern. Pushed beyond their limits, the girls at last run away and the adults must work together to find them. Subplots of minor consequence overshadow the primary story, and McKinney-Whetstone's adult characters are too unreflective to win our sympathy. Despite patches of warmth and humor, melodrama prevails over some flashing moments which remind one of McKinney-Whetstone's potential. Author tour.

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