Gain Colored Summer Imagined By Michelle McGriff Softcover

enjoyed this book. It deals with the intra racial prejudice that people have to endure and they difficult choices that have to make while trying to find their true identity, Being Black in a White World

Thea Fairbanks got the shock of her life when the doctor informed her about her blood test, Thea was a carrier of the sickle cell trait, After asking her parents, Scott and Tina, if any family members had the disease, they both laughed knowing it was a “colored” disease, You see the Fairbanks were upstanding and respectable members of the “white” community, Thea believes that her grandmother Emerald “Emma” Jackson Fairbanks holds the key to understanding why she has this trait,

Emma is proud of her heritage even though she doesnt openly express it, At a young age, she was sent to live with the Griffiths because her mother was dying, Emma suffered through many heartaches and years of mental and physical abuse before she learned to live with the hand God had dealt her, Emma knows all the details of their dark family secrets but she may not live long enough to reveal it,

COLORED SUMMER is a dramatic historical romance about how many African Americans lived during thes ands, The characters leap from the page causing you to sympathize with their plight and thank God that it wasnt you, McGriff did her research with this one she used terminology, dialogue, and believable examples concerning life during the Jim Crow era, COLORED SUMMER is a must read romance that will fill your sunny afternoons with both tears and laughter both signs of an extraordinary novel,
Although attitudes have changed considerably since the's, finding out that you have a trait for a blood disease predominately predisposed to black people would shake up the average person.
That's what happened to Thea Fairbanks when she went for a prenuptial physical, Thea looks to her father's family for answers, She takes her grandmother Emma Fairbanks on an outing in order to ask more questions about their family's past, Colored Summer is taught that her looks and skin tones are curses from God, punishments for her mother's sins of having a child out of wedlock, Hoping that somewhere the air is lighter, cleanerblowing something other than prejudice and hate her wayEmerald starts her journey to discovery, Leaving behind her lifethe good, a childhood love that will never die, as well as the bad, a life darkened by intraracial prejudiceshe comes out west, where the air is indeed blowing differently.
For Emerald, who changes her name to Emma, it is blowing white and she finds herself in a new life, with a new identity, But can she cut loose her past and the tie that binds her heart can she forget where she came from Thea founds herself up against a trace of Sickle Cell disease before marriage.
So she goes to her grandmother Emma to find out about her family history, Thea finds herself rushing her grandmother to the emergency from her passing out, At that point the flash from the past starts up, Emma finds herself living a lie because the color of her skin, Although the outside was saying she was white but she was consider black, This happen because her mother let a white couple adopt her while she was on her death bed, From that point Emma takes you through her trials as she lives a lie,

I really enjoyed the book but as a reviewer the book was out of tune, It started off as Thea story and flash to grandmother story and just left Thea out in the cold until the end, Where Emma wakes up to find Thea and the love of her life grandson standing there, At the end I really had a lot of questions because I was very confused, So this is why I had to rate this book low,
Michelle McGriff is the Literary Worlds best kept secret, Writing many titillating and entertaining novels, and stimulating non fiction pieces, Michelle McGriff made her way gracefully onto the Black Expressions best sellers list in, and quietly into the hearts of readers who enjoy her prolific, mixed genre writing style.
Talented and deeply appreciative of her gift of storytelling, Michelle McGriff now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she writes and teaches, Look for her books wherever you find good reading

materials, Completed and copywritten works by Michelle McGriffMajestic Secret a romance NovelMajestic Secret Book oneA style of His Own Destinys SongRested MemoriesTemporary RainTheth Floor and Other Short StoriesThe Michelle McGriff is the Literary Worlds best kept secret.
Writing many titillating and entertaining novels, and stimulating non fiction pieces, Michelle McGriff made her way gracefully onto the Black Expressions best sellers list in, and quietly into the hearts of readers who enjoy her prolific, mixed genre writing style.
Talented and deeply appreciative of her gift of storytelling, Michelle McGriff now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she writes and teaches, Look for her books wherever you find good reading materials, Completed and copywritten works by Michelle McGriffMajestic Secret a romance NovelMajestic Secret Book oneA style of His Own Destinys SongRested MemoriesTemporary RainTheth Floor and Other Short StoriesThe Legend of MorningFor Loves SakeObsessionFeels like FallingColored SummerDeadly TeaseChange of LifeLast BreathBlood RelationsSwerve: an expected turn of eventsNon fictionThe Human Experience: the journey of Soul MatesWriting as Lena ScottChocolate DreamO.
G. Original GangsterWest End Girls I, II, III sitelink,