Bridgett M. Davis

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Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots. Her bid whist–playing mother is as nervous as ever, and her father's chronic migraines seem less responsive to medication. And while they all occupy the same house, they might as well be living separate lives. When the tenuous peace finally breaks, Rae must decide where her loyalties lie: should she choose her emotionally distant mother, whom she adores, or her affectionate but needy father? Rae does choose and launches into a rich, loving relationship with her dad, for whom she shows a fierce, undying loyalty. But as she matures, she must find a way amid her own budding sexuality to be both Daddy's girl and her own woman.

"The author’s prose is poignant, like a strong left hook...sad, but endearing...written with precision and skill."
--Atlanta Daily World Celebration of Books Fall 2004

Bridgett M. Davis was selected as a 2004 “Original Voices” new author by Borders Books, and named “Best New Author of 2004” by the Go On, Girl! Book Club (one of the largest national reading groups for African-American women). The novel was recently nominated for a 2005 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright award for “Best Contemporary Fiction.” Davis is also an independent filmmaker and essayist, her work has appeared in The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking For Ourselves, The Detroit Free Press, Venue Literary Magazine, and The Black Female Body in American Culture: Critical Essays. She has also written reviews, articles and profiles for a host of newspapers and journals, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Newsday, Black Film Review, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She teaches Creative Writing and Journalism at Baruch College in New York, where she is an Associate Professor.

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