![]() ![]() Her husband dies in a crab fishing accident and she goes insane because of the medication she's presribed to deal with her mourning. The long and short of it is that her Mom dies young, she's raised by her Mom's siblings (two aunts and two uncles) in the upper scale area of Philly. Okay it wasn't the book that I wanted, but it ended up being a really good read. In Tempest Rising, McKinney-Whetstone richly evokes the early 1960s in west Philadelphia in this story of loss and healing, redemption, and love. As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her boyfriend's father. Though Mae lavishes affection onto her foster children, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. The girls are wrenched from their mother and dumped into foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. ![]() ![]() When their father disappears suddenly, he is presumed dead, sending their mother spiraling into an apparent breakdown. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. ![]() Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival. ![]()
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