{"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\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBebe Moore Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBebe Moore Campbell was a bestselling author and a journalist. Her nonfiction work has appeared in \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Ms., Essence, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Working Mother, USA Weekend, \u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAdweek, \u003c\/b\u003eamong other publications. She was a regular contributor to National Public Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBebe Moore Campbell was the author of such national, critically acclaimed bestsellers as \u003cb\u003eBrothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eYour Blues Ain't Like Mine\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eWhat You Owe Me\u003c\/b\u003e as well as the award-winning children's book, \u003cb\u003eSometimes My Mommy Gets Angry\u003c\/b\u003e and the recently published \u003cb\u003eStompin' at the Savoy\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampbell was born and grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education. She taught elementary and middle school for five years. She is survived by her husband, Ellis Gordon, Jr., her daughter, the actress Maia Campbell, and a son, Ellis Gordon III.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758610907424,"sku":"9780425229279","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f07387496f030f05567c64ce073628a8_0dde2f89-2b14-45d4-bc6a-24dee8d627e6.webp?v=1780130435","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sweet-summer-growing-up-with-and-without-my-dad-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}