Pearl Cleage. (2010). Till You Hear from Me: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Pearl Cleage. 2010. Till You Hear From Me: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear From Me: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2010.

Pearl Cleage. Till You Hear From Me: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2010.

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   • bioText: Pearl Cleage is the author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . , an Oprah’s Book Club selection; Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do, a Good Morning America Read This! book club pick; Babylon Sisters, for which she was named the 2006 Go On Girl! Book Club Author of the Year; Baby Brother’s Blues, winner of the 2006 NAACP Image Award and the African American Literary Award for fiction; and Seen It All and Done the Rest. The first author selected for the Essence Book Club, she collaborated with her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett, Jr., on the poem We Speak Your Names. She is also an accomplished dramatist whose plays include Flyin’ West, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and A Song for Coretta. Cleage and her husband live in Atlanta.
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Pearl Cleage's Just Wanna Testify and a Till You Hear from Me discussion guide.
From the acclaimed Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . and Seen It All and Done the Rest, comes an Obama-era romance featuring a cast of unforgettable characters.
 
Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon and self-described “foot soldier for freedom,” is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics.
    The Rev’s stinging words and myopic views don’t sound anything like the man who raised Ida to make her mark in the world. When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on. Besides, with her job prospects growing dimmer, getting out of D.C. for a while might be the smartest move she could make.
    Back in her old West End neighborhood, Ida runs into childhood friend and smooth political operator Wes Harper, also in town to pay a visit to the Reverend Dunbar, his mentor. Ida doesn’t trust Wes or his mysterious connections for one second, but she can’t deny her growing attraction to him.
 
While Ida and the Rev try to find the balance between personal loyalties and political realities, they must do some serious soul searching in order to get things back on track before Wes permanently derails their best laid plans.
 

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   • source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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     "Wise and funny . . . equal parts Southern hospitality, history lessons and wry observations about life and love."

2. • premium: False
   • source: The Washington Post
   • content: "What [Pearl] Cleage gets right, as in her previous novels, is the strength and warmth of the people of the [West End] Atlanta community. . . . The scenes of them and others laughing, joshing, cooking and eating are full and rich."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Ready for a modern read about the intersection of politics and personal loyalty? Till You Hear from Me is it."--Ebony "Fans will cozy up."
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     March 1, 2010
     There's no mistaking the audience Cleage (Seen It All and Done the Rest
     ) intends to reach with her grating new novel. After her work on the Obama campaign, 35-year-old Ida Dunbar expects a placement in the new administration, but it appears her hopes are dashed as a result of statements made by her outspoken father, civil rights legend Rev. Horace Dunbar. After his latest ill-considered remark, longtime family friend Miss Iona calls Ida and asks that she return home to Georgia to check on her father. Meanwhile, Wes Harper, the son of the Rev's closest confidante, returns, but for a different purpose: a Republican operative, he's been tasked with securing the Rev's voter database in order to purge the voting rolls. The author paints those associated with Ida and her father with a broad, loving, brush, while Wes and the Republicans are predictably and cartoonishly villainous. With the exception of remembrances of pivotal moments in the civil rights movement, the book is a tedious polemic, even for those inclined to agree with the narrative's political bent.

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     March 1, 2010
     A charismatic minister's apostasy threatens his daughter's political ambitions.
     
     Ida B. Wells Dunbar, 34, was a tireless Obama campaign worker. Now, post-Inauguration, she's languishing in D.C. awaiting a White House job offer. Has something sunk her prospects with the new administration? Could that iceberg be her father, Reverend Horace Dunbar, aka the"Rev," Atlanta's most revered and influential churchman and civil-rights leader since Dr. King? He castigated candidate Obama for distancing himself from the Rev's friend Jeremiah Wright, and his diatribe has been immortalized on YouTube. When a family friend asks Ida to intervene, she reluctantly returns to her old neighborhood (and familiar Cleage setting), Atlanta's West End, a crime-ridden slum turned gentrified African-American utopia. There, she's f'ted with mountains of down-home cuisine, provisioned by the many community gardens that have rendered the West End even more self-sustaining. Her father's loyal sidekick Ed Harper is chief gardener, but his primary function is accompanying the Rev to speaking engagements, more numerous than ever during Black History Month. The Rev's defection from Obama's camp is doubly puzzling, since he and Ed spearheaded a voter-registration campaign that mustered more than 100,000 new African-American Democrats to the polls in November. Now, encouraged by the Rev's seeming turnabout, corporate backers of the Party of No see an opportunity. If they can filch the Rev's list of new registrants, they could disqualify them all on bogus grounds in time for the midterm elections. The conservatives easily co-opt Ed's son Wes, an amoral, opportunistic WASP-wannabe who forsook the West End for Eton and the Ivy League. Can Wes, whose womanizing fits in with the rest of his stereotypical villainy, fool Ida (who pined for him in childhood) into thinking he's after her, not her father's list?
     
     Refusing to challenge her characters, Cleage (Seen It All and Done the Rest, 2008, etc.) undermines an exciting premise.

     (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     June 15, 2010
     

     African American Literary Award winner Cleage follows her best-selling Seen It All and Done the Rest with this post-2008 presidential election novel. While anxiously waiting for a job offer from the White House, Ida B. Wells Dunbar heads home to Atlanta to visit her father, a civil rights icon who has uncharacteristically bashed President Obama. The plot seems straightforward, but Cleage presents a few surprises for the unsuspecting reader. Her fans will undoubtedly love her unforgettable characters--wise yet loyal Miss Iona, stubborn and perceptive Reverend Dunbar, young and passionate Lu--just as they will appreciate her exquisite insight into various African American perceptions following the unprecedented election. Unfortunately, the story is overshadowed by the themes. The action starts in the second half of the novel, and Cleage's wonderful poeticisms--"She always referred to her husband as my Charlie in a tone that was equal parts affection and ownership"--are too scarce to allow readers to get lost completely in the text.

     Verdict This will appeal to lovers of contemporary African American fiction. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/10.]--Ashanti White, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro

     Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     March 1, 2010
     Along with Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright, Cleages fictional Reverend Horace Dunbar is considered one of the old guard of the civil rights movement. His position in the post-Obama firmament seems secure until the Rev, as he is known, vents an unsuspected level of frustration to a reporter and the rant goes viral on YouTube. The PR fallout is damaging enough to bring his estranged daughter, Ida, home to Atlanta from Washington, where she anxiously awaits a job offer from the White House as a reward for her campaign work. Right behind her on the road to Atlanta, however, is Wes, the son of the Revs best friend, covertly sent by the RNC to steal the Revs extensive voter-registration list. While she and her father inch toward a rapprochement, Ida and a coterie of sharp, sassy women work to foil Wes plans. Within the timely, politically relevant milieu of the new administration, best-selling, incisive Cleage zestfully crafts an intuitive novel of trust and responsibility, kinship and conviction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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From the acclaimed Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . and Seen It All and Done the Rest, comes an Obama-era romance featuring a cast of unforgettable characters.
 
Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon and self-described “foot soldier for freedom,” is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics.
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