![]() ![]() ![]() As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her boyfriend's father.Diane McKinney-Whetstone richly evokes the early 1960s in west Philadelphia in this spicy story of loss and healing, redemption and love. It is 1965 in Philadelphia and Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living a financially. Though Mae is filled with syrupy names like "pudding" and "doll face" for the foster girls, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. Award-winning author of the national best-seller Tumbling, Diane McKinney-Whetstone is an immensely talented author of African American fiction. ![]() The girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens they are living in foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. ![]() He disappears and is presumed dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. McKinney-Whetstone began writing when she was 39, joining the Rittenhouse Writers Group, founded by University of Pennsylvania instructor James Rahn. Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. ![]()
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