Description:
Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity--that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative reporter, shows up in town to work on a story connected to Catherine. Now she must finally reveal the truth she's been withholding from Phoebe for eighteen years, bringing them all together in ways they never could have imagined.
Brief description: Pearl Cleage is the author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . ., an Oprah's Book Club selection; Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, a Good Morning America Read This! book club pick; Babylon Sisters, for which she was named the 2006 Go On Girl! Book Club Author of the Year; Baby Brother's Blues, winner of the 2006 NAACP Image Award and the African American Literary Award for fiction; Seen It All and Done the Rest; and Till You Hear From Me. The first author selected for the Essence Book Club, she collaborated with her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett, Jr., on the poem We Speak Your Names. She is also an accomplished dramatist whose plays include Flyin' West, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and A Song for Coretta. Cleage and her husband live in Atlanta.
Review Quotes:
"Babylon Sisters' funny, feminine, fabulous voice sings a story of history, family, love, and redemption. Cleage's ability to make the personal political and the political personal triumphs once again! Nestled in this beautifully written ode to love--of child, friends, men, and self--is a call to political activism and empowerment."
-- "Jill Nelson, author of Sexual Healing"