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The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
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The Seasons of Beento Blackbird Hardcover - 1996

by Akosua Busia

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Little, Brown, 1996. 1st. Pristine. The Seasons of Beento Blackbird marks the debut of Akosua Busia, an exciting and passionate new novelist. It is the story of Solomon Wilberforce, a magnetic and brilliant man who writes bestselling children's books under the name Beento Blackbird and who has dedicated himself to educating the far-flung children of African descent about their glorious heritage. And it is also the story of the three women who love him: Miriam, the Caribbean midwife who delivered him into the world when she was nine years old; Samantha, his beautiful, talented, and utterly modern New York book agent; and Ashia, an innocent woman-child who awaits him in her native village in Ghana. Solomon spends one season a year with each of these very different women. But when a family tragedy brings him to New York out of season, he finds that the neat compartments that once separated Miriam, Sam, and Ashia begin to fold in on one another. In a life that was once ordered by the cadence of nature itself, suddenly nothing is certain - and Solomon and the women he loves will never be the same again. Hardcover Box 2
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  • Title The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
  • Author Akosua Busia
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Pristine
  • Pages 367
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown, Boston
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780316114950
  • ISBN 9780316114950 / 0316114952
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.43 x 1.23 in (24.28 x 16.33 x 3.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, New York (N.Y.) - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96002071
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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