After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild--her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love.

Acclaimed playwright, essayist, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable novel that sizzles with sensuality, hums with gritty truth, and sings and crackles with life-affirming energy.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 01/27/2009
ISBN: 9780061710384
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 25938 / What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12