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Chargement... The Hand I Fan With (1996)par Tina McElroy Ansa
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  Articul8Madness | Nov 6, 2023 |   Here's some homework for you. Cop "This is Acid Jazz" with R.A.D (it's a compilation CD) to hear So Complete. If I were to make this book into a movie, this song would be on the soundtrack! Oh! the only reason I gave this book 4 1/2* is because the beginning is slow and confusing, BUT believe me it is relevant and worth the wait. (  )1  Ashari | Feb 1, 2007 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson.nbsp;nbsp;Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has grown weary of shouldering the town's problems and wants to find a little love and companionship for herself.nbsp;nbsp;So she and a friend perform a supernatural ritual to conjure up a man for Lena.nbsp;nbsp;She gets one all right: a ghost named Herman who, though dead for one hundred years, is full of life and all man.nbsp;nbsp;His love changes Lena's life forever, satisfying as never before both her physical and spiritual needs.nbsp;nbsp;Filled with the same "humor, grace, and great respect for power of the particular" (The New York Times Book Review) as her previous critically acclaimed novels, Baby of the Family and Ugly Ways, The Hand I Fan Withnbsp;nbsp;is yet another memorable and life-affirming tale from one of America's best-loved authors. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Lena McPherson is a lady of prestige in her town of Mulberry, GA. Many readers who follow Ansa's work will remember Lena had a prequel in Baby Of The Family. This book though gives us full insight to her initial sadness - Lena was born of a spiritual birth with a caul over her face. Her people didn't believe in that, and burned the caul. Over her life Lena has had remarkable spiritual gifts, but such gifts have limited her from having meaningful relationships with people except for Sister, her best friend. Sister is prety much a high priestess and has been trying to help Lena get a handle on her gifts.
The book picks up steam with Sister goes on a spiritual trip for a couple of months. Before they go they do a ritual trying to conjure Lena up a man. Little do either of them know they summon Herman, Lena's 100 year old ghost of a guardian angel. Herman ain't your typical guardian angel. He's there to love Lena in any way shape or form she needs it, and he gets the job done. Slowly but surely her gifts start manifesting him as flesh and bone, especially as their love thing intensifies. This at least gives her clarity and closure on the deaths of her entire immediate family, and a deeper understanding of the state of affairs in her life, especially pertaining to Herman. But all good things come to an end. In the case of Herman and Lena, the end is just the beginning.
Read it. Starts out "slow" if you haven't read Baby Of The Family, but if you're reading a one off of it and make it to the chapter entitled "Love" the pages will turn and it will be over before you know it. (