Crossing Over Jordan

by Linda Beatrice Brown

Book Overview

"A DEEPLY AFFECTING NOVEL about the hidden legacy of slavery--from the waning of the Civil War to the early twenty-first century." --Essence Georgia McCloud lives to see emancipation. Her daughter Sadie discovers that, though she might be free, she is powerless to break with a man who abuses her. But at the center of their communal pain is Sadie's intelligent, beautiful, ambitious daughter Story, who wants more from life than she's been led to expect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345378571
• ISBN13: 9780345378576
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: One World
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

This was the most well-written book I have read recently.

Although the storyline is somewhat tragic, the storytelling was exceptional, and the theme was clearly communicated across characters and timeperiods. As a psychologist, I thought the author did a fine job of characterizing the psychological impact of slavery and racism on family dynamics across generations.

Good book

I thought this was a good book to read. It gave a lot of insight into the troubles african american women of past generations faced through the life of Story. She was scared to love and be loved. Only through Story's death was her daughter Hermine able to break through her mothers wall and love her.