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Title: Always Wear Joy : My Mother Bold and Beautiful by Susan Fales-Hill ISBN: 0-06-052356-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: a loving ode to motherhood
Comment: Susan Fales Hill, a writer and producer of such shows as A Different World and Linc's, learned her life lessons from her mother Josephine Premice, a singer and stage actress who never received the acclaim or attention that she deserved. Fales-Hill tries to rectify this situation by writing a loving memoir of her mother. Premice, who made sporadic television appearances here and there during the last decade of her life, always maintained her dignity whatever the situation be it a philandering husband or Hollywood executives full of arrogant ignorance who believed that she wasn't representative of Black women.
Fales interweaves her own struggles as a writer in Hollywood and finds that her experiences parallel her mother's. Along the way, we are introduced to writers and producers who lecture Fales-Hill that characters such as Denise Huxtable are "not Black enough." We also learn of the struggles of Premice's friends including Diahann Carroll who although more successful in her career than Premice also had her share of frustation.
To the Connecticut reviewer, a slight clarification...there is nothing "new" about this Black society which is the point that Fales-Hill continuously makes in her book. The Black middle/upper class has long been in existence but dismissed by those in the media who could help display that side of the African American community. All the more reason a book like this is just as valuable as works about the underclass.
More than anything, this book is celebration of a special woman by her loving daughter.
Rating: 5
Summary: Connecticut reader amazed by this new black society
Comment: When I first heard about this book in Vogue a few days ago, I wasn't sure what to expect because I'm a white woman living in suburban Connecticut and never knew black people who'd lived the life that this author lived: growing up on West End Avenue, going to the Lycee on the East Side, attending Ivy League schools and having parents who were wealthy, well-travelled and famous. Wow!
A lot of my friends who are somewhat liberal--although still Republican--first read about rich black people a couple years ago in the "Our Kind of People" book, but now I'm really getting it. A couple of us realized that we had seen Mrs. Fales-Hill and a few other prominent black people at some of our favorite New York charity balls. But we didn't know them and didn't know how or why they were there.
Her life story and the people in the Our Kind book really make me realize how separate this country still is. There is no reason why whites, blacks and mixed race people with so many things in common, should live such separate lives. I had heard of Josephine Premice, the author's mother, many years ago when the play "Bubbling Brown Sugar" was on Broadway. Her struggle for jobs on Broadway and the world that often rejected her color, her husband and her children are a great story.
Rating: 4
Summary: VERY MOVING
Comment: I saw Josephine Premice in Bubbling Brown Sugar when I was a child. She was awesome and this book is a nice tribute to a fine artist. Alas, the parts about Susan Fales Hill aren't so good. I didn't care about her college years or about her first love. That could've been reduced to two well chosen paragraphs. Luckily this was a small part of the book. Buy the book, it's a joy.
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Title: A.L.T. : A Memoir by Andre Leon Talley ISBN: 0375508287 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Somebody's Someone: A Memoir by Regina Louise ISBN: 0446529109 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A Love No Less : Two Centuries of African American Love Letters by Pamela Newkirk ISBN: 0385503792 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Round-Heeled Woman : My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska ISBN: 1400060117 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey by Lynne Duke ISBN: 0385503989 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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