Tangoing with tornadoes
Subtitle: a novel
By: by S. Renee Mitchell
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Nappy Roots Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780983000495
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Family violence; Fiction; Drug addiction; Dysfunctional families; Poetry; Therapeutic use; African Americans
Description: "My power is worth more than your lies." Why are we continuously giving away our power to those who do not respect or deserve it? Krista Love is an overweight and insecure African American newspaper reporter in Portland, Oregon, trying to manage her sometimes dysfunctional relationships with her abusive man, her emotionally ambivalent mother, her bossy best friend, and her drug-addicted sister. Along her tumultuous journey, Krista discovers the healing power of poetry to help reclaim her voice that had been so long buried under the needs of so many others in her life, and to rehabilitate her bruised sense of self.--Amazon.com.