A Parallel Life

by Bonnie Greer

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to 'a proper girl' - a precious definition in a segregate and racist America where black life was deemed only three-fifths of white life ... and the life of a black woman even less.

414 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 15, 2014

About the author

Bonnie Greer is an American-British playwright, novelist and critic. She is also the Chancellor of Kingston University, a university located in Kingston upon Thames, London.

Reviews

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this - so much culture and context is woven into the writing - so many events I remembered, music that I loved. My son told me about Bonnie Greer - somehow I hadn’t heard of her before.