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    Camilla's Roses
    Camilla's Roses
    Camilla's Roses
    Audiobook6 hours

    Camilla's Roses

    Written by Bernice L. McFadden

    Narrated by Patricia R. Floyd

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Winner of two Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Awards and an Honor Award from the American Library Association, Bernice L. McFadden has authored several national best-sellers, including Suger (F0006) and This Bitter Earth (F0043). Camilla spent years disassociating herself from her dysfunctional family, creating a new life and new self-image. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, however, she must reconnect with her painful past. "Gritty but loving portrait of an African-American family's indestructible ties."-Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 28, 2010
    ISBN9781449832162
    Camilla's Roses
    Author

    Bernice L. McFadden

    Bernice L. McFadden is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels including Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), Glorious, and The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction). She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA.

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    • 5/5
      Bernice does not disappoint. How do you trace a family lineage that runs this deep? She captivates you from the beginning through every intricate detail she unveils. What a talent.
    • 4/5
      McFadden covers a myriad of issues in this book to include the legends and feelings associated with breast cancer; being black and trying to look white; the effects of infidelity; the power of the family unit and tragic loss of loved ones. Wonderfully constructed, Ms. McFadden's work flows much like poetry. Her manipulation of the written word is incredibly visual...truly a beautiful piece of work. She has another page-turner with her lyrical and reflective prose in Camilla' Roses. Velma and Maggie are the heart of the novel. Velma is such a strong character who makes do with what life deals her and continued to lover her family despite. It was a story charged with emotion and human conditions in the life of an African American family that has so many losses but also had a legacy of strength and fortitude from ancestors long gone. Maggie, even though she 's simple minded, she is insightful, spiritual and funny. McFadden breaths life into thes larger than life characters with the same style and grace as with all other characters she's penned. They leave an impact on you after reading her books. McFadden is a fantastic writer and I will continue to support her work. I look forward to her next literary masterpiece.
    • 5/5
      Character after character in Camilla's Roses by BERNICE L. MCFADDEN made a memory in my heart and mind. From the beginning I was touched by Maggie. Throughout the novel Maggie would touch me in a special way. She was considered simple minded. I find it's those who are thought of as less than sensible who have the most love to give to other people. In the novel the ladies in the family have the characteristics of a rose. It's so fitting that their middle name is Rose. So you have Maggie Rose, Velma Rose and Camilla Rose. Maggie wasn't the only character who touched my heart. I was touched by each woman in a different way. As for the men, Camilla's husband is the most honest. Yes, he's flawed but again, he didn't know how to handle what life served him unexpectedly. Perhaps, my favor. Not knowing how to ease their emotional sorrows they chose ways that brought them more harm in the end. Leroy Brown and Audrey really touched me.At this very moment I can see Audrey riding Camilla's bike up and down the street trying to catch a bit of her childhood again because adult life isn't as free and wonderful as childhood. Childhood is that special time when we really believe gumdrops might grow on trees. There is also Retha, the great aunt in the family who bares her deepest scas in order to help Camilla understand what life has brought her way. Each woman gives and gives and gives. Each woman falters, but who doesn't fall down as we learn to walk through life. Velma is the true matriarch. Every child becomes her child to feed, to scold, to love and to give a bed to sleep in each night. She is the kind of person whose bark is bigger than her bite. She wouldn't hurt a butterfly.Then, there is Camilla. Camilla will bare the pain of genetics in her life. What comes to one person in a family will at some point come again to another person in the family tree due to no fault of their making. Camilla is brave. Can we ever go home again? For me Camilla answered that question. The novel is filled to the brim and running over with love between a man and a woman and sometimes love between those whom we don't expect to love one another in life. Overall the novel is about the mystery of life. We don't know where we will walk until we've walked that path. In other words the past is all that is known. Sometimes it isn't grasped fully. The present is happiness mixed with a struggle. Sadly, for some people today brings no happiness at all. It is all hurt. Tomorrow is a well spiced cooked stew of not knowing anything until it arrives on our doorstep. In the long run children, men and women are all survivors grateful to have a planet on which to live out the acts and scenes of their particular play.bernicemcfadden,Thank you Ms. Bernice L. McFadden for making this play seem so real.urbanext.illinois.edu/roses/historybernicemcfadden
    • 4/5
      McFadden covers a myriad of issues in this book to include the legends and feelings associated with breast cancer; being black and trying to look white; the effects of infidelity; the power of the family unit and tragic loss of loved ones. Wonderfully constructed, Ms. McFadden's work flows much like poetry. Her manipulation of the written word is incredibly visual...truly a beautiful piece of work. She has another page-turner with her lyrical and reflective prose in Camilla' Roses. Velma and Maggie are the heart of the novel. Velma is such a strong character who makes do with what life deals her and continued to lover her family despite. It was a story charged with emotion and human conditions in the life of an African American family that has so many losses but also had a legacy of strength and fortitude from ancestors long gone. Maggie, even though she 's simple minded, she is insightful, spiritual and funny. McFadden breaths life into thes larger than life characters with the same style and grace as with all other characters she's penned. They leave an impact on you after reading her books. McFadden is a fantastic writer and I will continue to support her work. I look forward to her next literary masterpiece.