Dear Lover
- ISBN-10
- 097068472X
- ISBN-13
- 9780970684721
- Series
- Dear Lover
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-12-01
- Author
- Yvonne Rainey
Description
Take a blender, if you will, and drop a pinch of Terry McMillan, one handful of Sister Souljah, and a cup of Donald Goines with a sprinkle of Maya Angelou. Then you will have created the author and poet of Yvonne Rainey. Her first, but certainly not last novel, Dear Lover, is told by a twenty-year-old female named Danna, while serving time at Women's Federal Correctional Prison in Phoenix, Arizona. As her bunkie, a twenty-year-old by the name of Roxanne, position herself restlessly upon the top bunk after lights out, posed Danna with a serious question. "How did you and your boyfriend both end up severing time in a Federal Prison?"Intoxicated by the music that faintly oozed like honey from the rigged speakers came romantic sounds from the "Quiet Storm" on 1019. Enchanting music by artists like Levert, The Isley Brothers, Smokey Robinson, Shirley Murdock and Anita Baker, to name a few. I mean, real music that brought back vivid memories of home sweet home, which made Danna reply by asking, "Where do you want me to start?" It was then that Dana took Roxanne on an imaginative roller coaster ride from day one when she met this cooly confident drug-dealer by the name of Derrick, who Danna fell vulnerable to his charms. Danna then explained how her common sense took the backseat to her wild streak as she threw herself headlong into a relationship that could potentially destroy her. Danna also explains how she quickly became entrenched in a dark lifestyle that involved drug use, gang-bangers, an abusive relationship and potential murder. Danna tells how she began to lose sight of a promise to a bright future that she thought lied ideally ahead. However, through the dark, gloomy path Danna walked so boldly upon as a teenager, unknowingly possessed deep down in the bowels of her soul, some real moral and a spiritual truth was revealed that may have saved Danna from total self destruction. Author Yvonne Rainey does a fine job of evoking life on the mean street of Las Vegas, far from the glittering lights of the opulent casinos. Dear Lover is a hip, contemporary novel that is rich in natural dialogue and harrowing suspense. Experience Dear Lover. Just turn your bathroom into your sole living quarter for one day. Lock the door from the outside and cut off the light, then maybe you'll feel some of what's being said. Dear Lover is a written description of all who breathe, eat, sleep, work or play. Dear Lover could be about any one of us. No one is exempted from being caught up.
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- 2009-04-10
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