Joy – Marsha Hunt

Description

Condition: Book is in very good condition; dust jacket has a tear-see images

346 Pages, Hardback

24x16x3.5cm

This first novel draws on Marsha Hunt’s experience of growing up black in America, of the music business and of finding fame in a white-dominated world.

“All families got secrets, but Joy’s had more than their fair share. So while I’m able to tell you what she did, ain’t no use me pretending that I know why … they was just born under bad moons.”

As the Bang family gathers for Joy Bang’s funeral, Baby Palatine, the elderly woman who raised the Bang girls and who has an idealized image of the Bangs, realizes that their’s is not a perfect family.