Tempest Rising - Diane Mckinney-whetstone [124]
DIANE MCKINNEY-WHETSTONE
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TEMPEST RISING
“[An] extravagant tale of love and death, loss and healing—all accompanied by the rich smells of cooking and the honey and almond smells of the finest handmade soap money can buy.”
Denver Rocky Mountain News
“Tempest Rising is assured and lively, and the characters and scenes hold the reader’s attention throughout…. A skilled storyteller…the author has carefully and adroitly woven into her novel a kaleidoscope of black Philadelphia in the 1960s: its places and its people, their styles and lore, above all the rhythms of black speech, popular songs, language itself. The result is a compelling, musical narrative net that captures an era and catches the ear as much as the eye…. In Ramona, McKinney-Whetstone creates a character who is so vivid, believable, and engaging that the reader can almost touch her as she moves through each scene.”
Washington Post Book World
“McKinney-Whetstone solidifies her position as a writer of well-crafted, serious popular fiction…. [She] is masterful at rendering the spaces between people, giving to the air that separates them a taste, a texture, a soul.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“An engrossing reading experience from its beginning to its surprising ending…An author apart from the usual and ordinary, McKinney-Whetstone…[is] practiced in the usage of language, adept in the portrayal of powerful characters, and perceptive in the delineation of a culture, time, or place. Her lyricism has been compared to Toni Morrison and her perception of family to Tina Ansa. Her characters are always unpredictable and multi-layered.”
Newport News Daily Press
“Captivating…[It] surpasses much of the run-of-the-mill African American-themed novels that have flooded the market in recent years…. McKinney-Whetstone didn’t lose her descriptive touch and ability to create sympathetic characters…. [Her] use of words can be mesmerizing.”
Dayton Daily News
“McKinney-Whetstone describes the children’s perilous effort to reunite with their suicidal, hospitalized mother in detailed, sometimes humorous language that does not trivialize their plight. It makes their time in foster care with callous guardians all the more traumatic.”
Roanoke Times & World News
“Laudable…well-written…wonderfully drawn character descriptions…Beautiful language and lyrical prose flow like champagne at a gala in Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s Tempest Rising…. Many passages…read like poetry.”
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“An author who, like a good blues singer, is strong on style and interpretation…. A gifted prose writer with a tremendous sense of place.”
Kirkus Reviews
“McKinney-Whetstone has a great eye for detail and a sneaky sense of humor.”
Syracuse Post-Standard
“Is McKinney-Whetstone the next Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, or Anne Tyler? In terms of critical success, perhaps she is or will be. But more important, her work offers just what readers are looking for—a fresh new voice, strong and clear, wise and warm, announcing its quiet, glowing dawn on the literary scene.”
New Orleans Times-Picayune
“She ought to be classified among the best of all contemporary fiction writers, period.”
Detroit Free Press
By Diane McKinney-Whetstone
LEAVING CECIL STREET
BLUES DANCING
TEMPEST RISING
TUMBLING
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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