{"product_id":"sweet-summer-growing-up-with-and-without-my-dad-paperback","title":"Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Potent . . . Unforgettable.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Bharati Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e The New York Times Book Review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . . While Sweet Summer is infused with experiences unique to African-American culture, it speaks to the universals of human experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the narrative force of fiction and the lyrical motion of poetry, SWEET SUMMER is Bebe Moore Campbell's elegy to her extraordinary father. Though she lived with her devoted mother and grandmother in the North most of the year, Campbell spent the summers with her father in the South--a man of gargantuan appetites and boundless exuberance. To his daughter, he was a magical presence.\u003cbr\u003eA bittersweet evocation of a divided childhood with its family secrets, surprising discoveries, loneliness, and love, SWEET SUMMER also recalls living on the cusp of the social revolution of the 1960s. Most of all, it is an achingly honest and beautiful reminder of the universal challenge of growing up and facing one's parents as an adult.\u003cbr\u003e\"Touching. . . With this candid account and loving tribute to a special man, Campbell breaks through all the stereotypes about black family life.\" \u003cbr\u003e--New York Daily News\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a child, Bebe Moore spent her school years in Philadelphia, in a world of women. Surrounded by clouds of Emeraude and Chanel, supported by the strength of her mother, grandmother, aunts, and teachers, she learned by example to mind her p's and q's, to cross her t's and dot her i's. But when summer came, Bebe was sent down South to live with her father -- an extraordinary man who allowed no disability or disadvantage to stop his dreams, and whose powerful presence added a different dimension to his daughter's life. Now, in this acclaimed memoir, the bestselling author of such novels as Brothers and Sisters remembers those sweet summers and shares the bittersweet experience of growing up in 1960s America, finding a place in the world -- and discovering that family may be separated, but it can never be truly divided.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67971329917151,"sku":"9780425229279","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XQ8piq4O1z9780425229279.webp?v=1791795111","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/sweet-summer-growing-up-with-and-without-my-dad-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}