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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Paperback - 2009

by Pearl Cleage


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After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living among the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and the biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines is the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love.


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After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild--her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love.

Acclaimed playwright, essayist, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable novel that sizzles with sensuality, hums with gritty truth, and sings and crackles with life-affirming energy.

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First published by Avon books in 1997.

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  • Title What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
  • Author Pearl Cleage
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-01-27
  • ISBN 9780061710384 / 0061710385
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Michigan
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: AIDS
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Michigan
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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