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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

Bebe Moore Campbell

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 7098 Users | 149 Reviews

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Original Title:	Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel
ISBN:	0345401123 (ISBN13: 9780345401120)
Edition Language:	English

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Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town. Chicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman, Armstrong is killed. And the precariously balanced world and its determined people--white and black--are changed, then and forever, by the horror of poverty, the legacy of justice, and the singular gift of love's power to heal.

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Title	:	Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Author	:	Bebe Moore Campbell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	June 27th 1995 by One World/Ballantine (first published September 8th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Historical. Historical Fiction. Race

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Ratings: 4.21 From 7098 Users | 149 Reviews

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Set in both Chicago and the Mississippi Delta, Campbell's book follows three different (though definitely overlapping...) narrative threads, spanning three generations. It took me a while to get all of the names and characters straight, largely because I was reading the opening chapters in short sittings. When I made time to read good long chunks of the book in extended sittings, all of those characters began to come together, and I found myself caring quite deeply about figures from all three

I cannot recall why I had been reading the history of Emmet Till, but I had been, and it led me to add this book to my reading list, and then, as you might expect, reds it.This is an excellent book. Even the title is perfect -- it explores the blues for a variety of different people; the families of the murdered boy, the families of his murderer, friends, local people. And while they all have their tragedies, they are all different, and compelling, and moving. The author loves her characters.

amazing book but having to hear all of my white classmates dissect race was grueling.

This is an almost perfect novel, loosely based on the life and death of Emmett Till. Each character- dissected into two camps, African Americans and the Whites, are all multilayered in which multiple points of view are surfaced, to flesh out the ambivalences and fears many felt as Mississippi and Jim Crow life began to disintegrate. You have the Armstrong Todd (based on Till) camp, including his mother Delotha, Wydell, and children, Karen, Brenda and WT; and The Cox family, Lily and Floyd Cox-

I had to read this book for my Intro to Black Studies class during my last year of college. I was skeptical at first because the points of view jumped around seemed somewhat distant, but as it turns out, it was one of the best aspects of the novel. It begins with an incident of misunderstanding that leads to a murder that incites the community of Hopewell more than any other killing before, leading to many different, yet similar people to become involved and interlinked forever.Also by having



332 pages. Donated 2010 May."Intriguing...A thoughtful, intelligent work...The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush....She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement....Campbell has a strong creative voice."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDChicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother