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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 - 1998

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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In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. Bur rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since she left, all the problems of the big city have invaded the sleepy community of her childhood. Because dear friends and family sorely need her help in the face of impending trouble and tragedy, and Ava cannot turn her back on them. And because, most importantly, Ava Johnson is inexplicabley and undeniably falling in love.

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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 [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-11
  • ISBN 9780380794874 / 038079487X
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.38 x 4.94 x 0.65 in (21.29 x 12.55 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Michigan - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97017708
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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