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Bernice L. McFadden

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Born

in Brooklyn, The United States

Website

http://www.bernicemcfadden.com

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Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction

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BERNICE L. McFADDEN is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels including Praise Song for the Butterflies (Long listed for the 2019 Women's Prize in Fiction ) The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction) 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) and Glorious . She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of four awards from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA).
McFadden has also penned five novels under the pseudonym: Geneva Holliday
She is a visiting assistant professor of creative ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 31,500 ratings · 3,967 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 10,264 ratings — published 2000 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Bitter Earth (Sugar Lacey, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 3,482 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Harlan 4.09 avg rating — 2,984 ratings — published 2016 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gathering of Waters 4.01 avg rating — 2,817 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warmest December 4.18 avg rating — 2,404 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nowhere Is a Place 4.14 avg rating — 2,127 ratings — published 2006 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Praise Song for the Butterflies 4.15 avg rating — 1,911 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glorious 4.02 avg rating — 1,564 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loving Donovan 4.08 avg rating — 1,508 ratings — published 2003 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camilla's Roses 4.07 avg rating — 661 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, Gathering of Waters

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“Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, Camilla's Roses

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“She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, Camilla's Roses

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“Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind.”
― Leonard Darwin

tags: darwinism, eugenics, evolution, population-control, racial-superiority, racism, social-darwinism

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“Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, Nowhere Is a Place

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message 10: by Lyn

May 05, 2012 05:59PM

Blessings,

I pray your day is a blessed one. Please visit http://theuniqueview.blogspot.com/ and enjoy the read. My goal is to encourage and motivate using my life experiences.

Peace to you all
Lyn

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message 9: by Lawrence

Mar 02, 2012 01:36AM

Bernice, thank you for accepting my friendship and I pickup one of your books by Geneva Holliday, entitled "Fever". I love that name Geneva because it was my mother's first name. Happy Reading and I love your writing very much. Keep up the great work and I'm looking forward to reading "Glorious".

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message 8: by Savannah

Mar 01, 2012 12:23PM