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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100684850354
ISBN-139780684850351
eBay Product ID (ePID)312049
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlessings
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAfrican American / General, General, Literary
Publication Year1998
GenreFiction
AuthorSheneska Jackson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.1 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-047246
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThere is no place quite like the local beauty salon, and Sheneska Jackson deftly uses this intimate setting as a backdrop for four women and their concerns about men, motherhood, and parenting. Patricia, the owner of Blessings, has come to terms with her infertility only to discover that her attempt to adopt a child brings its own pains and disappointments. Zuma, independent and financially secure, is plagued by regrets about an abortion in her past and, with her biological clock ticking, resolves to become a mother through artificial insemination. Faye, a widow and single mother trying her best to provide for her family, struggles to control a wild daughter on the brink of womanhood. For Sandy, motherhood is an unwelcome burden, and she blatantly mistreats her children -- until a crisis leads her to make a mother's ultimate sacrifice.