Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire
A Southern novel set in Georgia, tracing family memory, faith, romance, and the tensions between women in one household. Raymond Andrews explores the emotional complexity that runs through an African American family.
Work Information
Family memory and private desire quietly collide in the South.
Centered on two women and the larger family around them, the novel follows memory and desire within Georgia’s Southern social world. Its plainspoken storytelling lets family history and individual choice overlap naturally.
Review Summaries
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It is often read as a carefully observed family story shaped by the atmosphere of the American South.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Peachtree
- Published
- 1991-10-01
- Pages
- 202 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781561450329
- ISBN-10
- 1561450324
- Price
- 5679 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/United States/Black & African American
Jessie and Claire make their unique mark on the rural South. Look out! Here come Jessie Mitchell Blackshear and her equally dangerous double, Cousin Claire. Sexy, smart, and sassy, these powerful Black women survive and thrive in the male-dominated world of the rural South. Thoroughly different and equally dedicated to getting their way, Jessie and Claire will entertain and amaze you—if they don't swallow you whole! In these two hilarious and hair-raising novellas, Raymond Andrews has painted portraits of two very different black women whose means and modes of manipulation are mirror-opposites of each other, but whose motivations are frighteningly similar. The results—and their impact on those around them—are equally profound. Welcome to the darkly comic world of Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire, vividly presented in the rambunctious and rollicking prose of a master storyteller and inspired seer into human nature. Published shortly before Andrews's death in 1991, Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire won a 1992 American Book Award.
Raymond Andrews in the author of a number of books, including The Last Radio Baby and Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire. He passed away in 1991. Benny Andrews illustrated all of his brother Raymond's books. Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, he was an internationally-known artist whose works hang in major museums around the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirschorn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Museum of African Art. He passed away in 2006.
Reviews
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My great cousin write this book and to have this piece of history in my family is priceless
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love raymond andrews but this is not his best work, still worth the read, he was a great author that should be read, so sorry he is gone