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I would love to review this in EPub format! cherrysblogtours@mail.comhttp://cherrysblogtours.wordpress.com
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Literary
Jo Joe
Book Description:
A Black Bear, Pennsylvania novel
Jo Joe is a mystery of the heart about Judith Ormond, a young mixed race Jewish woman. Twenty years earlier, violence and hatred had driven her away from the small Pocono Mountains village where she was raised by her white Christian grandparents. Now, she must break her vow to never return. During the one week visit, she’s forced to deal with her first love who cruelly broke her heart, is menaced by an old enemy who threatens new brutalities, and finds more questions than answers about the bigotry that had scarred her childhood. But with her discovery of a long-buried secret that her grandmother had kept from her, Judith has to reconcile with the nature of her own prejudices and the scars that she had caused.
To read Sally Wiener Grotta’s essay about how memory becomes personal mythology, which is one of the themes of "Jo Joe," please go to her blog post "Malleable Memory." (http://www.grotta.net/blog.htm?post=8...)
About Black Bear, Pennsylvania
Jo Joe is set in the fictional Pocono Mountains village of Black Bear, Pennsylvania. Black Bear was created as a literary folie à deux by Sally Wiener Grotta and her husband Daniel Grotta. Both Sally and Daniel are dipping into the same pool of invented locale and characters to write a series of separate stories and novels that will, eventually, paint a full picture of the diversity of life and relationships in a small mountain village. The first Black Bear story was "Honor," a novella by Daniel Grotta
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