Getting our breath back
By: Shawne Johnson.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction; African American women -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Violent, Lilly, and Rose know how it feels to be black women trying to find their place in a changing white world. Violet, the eldest, grows up believing in the myth of the Southern belle - only to discover that good manners and genteel charm aren't going to bring her acceptance from a closed-minded society...or a philandering husband.

Lilly is an ex-Black Panther and writer caught up in the stormy aftermath of the sixties; she shuts out this new world of confusion and pain with the heroin that can never give her peace...or salvation. Rose is the youngest, a sculptor who has shaped herself in the image of an independent black woman grounded in the political movements of her time.

But she carries a secret heartache that will resonate in the life of her daughter, Imani, who grows up searching for the daddy she longs to know."--BOOK JACKET.