The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove

by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Book Overview

A privileged Southern girl must choose between her heart and her family's expectations in this heartfelt novel from the author of The Funeral Dress.

"Simply a wonderful book . . . bold and tender and memorable."--Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog and The Book of Marie

It's hard to be your own person, especially if your name is Bezellia Grove.

Relationships are complicated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307395049
• ISBN13: 9780307395047
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

3 stars

THE IMPROPER LIFE OF BEZELLIA GROVE by Susan Gregg Gilmore A charming coming of age story set in the 1960s. Bezellia Grove grows up within an affluent family in Nashville Tennessee. While her physician father is busy at work and her emotionally abusive, alcoholic mother cares more about her social life, Bezellia and her sister Adelaide have come to rely on their nanny Maizelle and handyman Nathaniel for familial love and support. Once Bezellia develops feelings for Nathaniel’s son Samuel, she begins to see the glaring differences between class, status and skin color within the uppity society and community in they live in. This is one of those stories that has been repeated time and time again; forbidden love, a clash of two cultures etc. While it’s a good story with an interesting premise and characters, there just wasn’t anything special or specific enough to make it stand out from other books in this genre. Rating: 3/5 ⭐️

We All Need To Feel Loved

Bezellia Grove grows up in an affluent and dysfunctional home in Tennessee. Her mother is an alcoholic. Her father is a Physician who is never home. The housemaid and handyman are who she feels more a kin to besides her sister, who has her own emotional issues. She just wants to be loved and finds it in a time that the world is not ready for it.