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Till You Hear From Me

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Till You Hear From Me

By: Pearl Cleage
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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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, 35-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, DC’s post-election sidelines even as her 20something counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon, 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.

When friends call to express their concern, Ida realizes it’s time to head home and see for herself what’s going on. 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. 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.

©2010 Pearl Cleage (P)2010 Random House African American Fiction Genre Fiction Sagas Women's Fiction

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"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." ( Booklist)

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I enjoyed the story line and the development of characters even though the ending was somewhat predictable and also uneventful.. However it kept my listening ear from beginning to end.

Predictable

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I loved this story, as I’ve loved all Pearl Cleage’s stories! Characters were can relate to. Narrative we don’t need a dictionary and Ph.D. to decipher. Just a great, down to earth, connect with the reader, kinda read that left me clapping at the end!!

A Pearl Cleage fan for LIFE!

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Another wonderful feel- good P. Cleage novel! Just wish that Cleage had performed the audiobook ...

Another great P. Cleage novel!

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a wonderful tale of the changing of the guard mixed with a father and daughter story.

perfect story

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Sometimes, I think the author rattled on a bit much in the chapters without getting to the point. I think she could have given us more of a climax with an unexpected ending. But all in all, it was ok.

Just Ok but keeps your attention

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Great story...The characters were well defined. However, the progression into the plot was slow at first. A great ending.

Good Read

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I already like Pearl Cleage, but what really pushed it over the edge and encouraged me to get the book was Bahni Turpin as the reader. a fantastic combo. I was so invested in the characters of this book, my eyes welled up at the end when...well, I won't tell you, you'll just have to listen/read.

You won't regret it.

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I enjoy every minute of it. Love the stories. Excellent read and it keeps you guessing.

Excellent read!

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Great story. I love the way the fictional characters incorporated important people and black history events in the story.

Great Story

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I am so very pleased to have read this book. Awesome author and such history in an area I am so familiar with as I was educated in the A U Center area of college. I will read this author's work again and again!

History being told from it roots

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