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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

Bebe Moore Campbell

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 7098 Users | 149 Reviews

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Original Title:	Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel
ISBN:	0345401123 (ISBN13: 9780345401120)
Edition Language:	English

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Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town.

Chicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman, Armstrong is killed. And the precariously balanced world and its determined people--white and black--are changed, then and forever, by the horror of poverty, the legacy of justice, and the singular gift of love's power to heal.

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Title	:	Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Author	:	Bebe Moore Campbell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	June 27th 1995 by One World/Ballantine (first published September 8th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Historical. Historical Fiction. Race

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Ratings: 4.21 From 7098 Users | 149 Reviews

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Set in both Chicago and the Mississippi Delta, Campbell's book follows three different (though definitely overlapping...) narrative threads, spanning three generations. It took me a while to get all of the names and characters straight, largely because I was reading the opening chapters in short sittings. When I made time to read good long chunks of the book in extended sittings, all of those characters began to come together, and I found myself caring quite deeply about figures from all three

This is an almost perfect novel, loosely based on the life and death of Emmett Till. Each character- dissected into two camps, African Americans and the Whites, are all multilayered in which multiple points of view are surfaced, to flesh out the ambivalences and fears many felt as Mississippi and Jim Crow life began to disintegrate. You have the Armstrong Todd (based on Till) camp, including his mother Delotha, Wydell, and children, Karen, Brenda and WT; and The Cox family, Lily and Floyd Cox-

amazing book but having to hear all of my white classmates dissect race was grueling.

The joy is that there are whole worlds of authors out there waiting to be discovered. You never know what you will find. I have never read any Campbell before and while I didn't love this book and it isn't perfect, I really liked it and enjoyed the arc of the characters.This novel is based on the Emmett Till case. Campbell takes the structure of Till's vicious murder and follows the characters in the aftermath of the crime. The book deals with some heavy issues, but was readable and the fates of

This book is based on the story of Emmitt Till. It's soooo excellent. BeBe Moore Campbell did an amazing job of writing from the perspective of all of her characters. I think everybody should read this book.

I don't know why I waited so long to read Bebe Moore Campbell's novels. First, for their realism, their way of plunking you down into the gritty immediacy of whatever is happening in them..and there is a lot happening in them. Her take on black and white, men and women, segregation, integration....priceless. I grieve for this author and the loss of the other books she might have written had she not died so young.

Whenever I hear someone rave about The Help, I suggest they read Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. The Help has good parts, but on the whole Your Blues Ain't Like Mine -- a novel based on the Emmett Till murder -- seems so much more realistic and honest about how horrible conditions were for African-Americans in the 1950s South.Here's a post I wrote about the novel for Newsworthy Novels, a blog that matches novels to today's headlines and events (this entry was for Black History Month):