Crossing Over Jordan

by Linda Beatrice Brown

Georgia McCloud lives to see emancipation. Her daughter Sadie discovers that, though she might be free, she is powerless to break with a man who abuses her. But at the center of their communal pain is Sadie's intelligent, beautiful, ambitious daughter Story, who wants more from life than she's been led to expect. Her uncompromising desire for safety corrupts Story to her very soul, dooming her to wander an emotional desert, repressed, rigid, enslaved to propriety. Her daughter Hermine must then challenge the lie that life is hardship. But can Hermine finally break the cycle of oppression that has chained the women of her family? Can she alone cross over Jordan?

Reminiscent of the early work of Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, Crossing Over Jordan deftly explores the themes of the mother-daughter relationship, the emotional scars left by history, the struggle to be authentic in the throes of great personal pain, and the transforming power of love.

292 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 1995

Reviews

[Elisha Ebanks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book! Perfect example of how hurt holds people hostage within themselves unless they release that pain and work through it so they can love. That hurt will just manifest and ooze out in behaviours towards others and easy targets ends up being children. Learn to talk up, speak out and express yourself as much as you can. Break the cycle of silence that comes down from the generations. Do better because you know better!