Review by biyatriz -- A Portrait of Mommy by JL Coston
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[Following is a volunteer review of "A Portrait of Mommy" by JL Coston.]
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This book is the biography of the author’s mother, Ellawese Darden.
Ellawese’s life, or “Peas” as her family called her due to her small form and stature, starts in Georgia in 1929. Or journey in reading the book also starts here and accompanies “Peas”’s life through her childhood and into her womanhood and later on focuses on her ability to heal people with prayers to God.
Ellawese revises memories of her childhood such as learning to work, going to school and later on dropping out. She even relates memories of her parents, of their lovely marriage during her first years and then her mother’s infidelity and its repercussions.
Moving on, she also relates her adult life, how she searches for her mother and then finds her with a child and then how she starts to work to help her mother, and even the boys she was interested in and later on broke her heart.
At the end, maybe the last chapter or so, she focuses almost completely in telling the readers about God and the power of prayer, how it saved her baby’s life when she drank poison by mistake and was given no chance at life by the doctors and then how she started to be a “warrior prayer” and how it helped in healing other people. She finishes by recollecting the work she has done with the church and how it improved her life and helped improve other’s.
The last paragraph ends with a positive view, a happy resignation that all that happened in her life was by God’s doing and was part of God’s big plan.
This book tells us how life was for poor African American families, how they were discriminated and treated unfairly, even though Ellawese’s recalling were never aimed to reproach this behavior but rather to simply recall the events as they were and, looking back the only censuring look ends up being the readers as they witness this bad behavior.
Overall, the book is very readable, light even. It has no grammatical, spelling or formatting errors. I strongly recommend this book for those interested in African American history, women’s history or even inspirational reading. I think the book is very enjoyable and endearing, even perfect for those who don’t like a heavier reading!
I rate this book, A Portrait of Mommy, with 4 out of 4 stars.
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A Portrait of Mommy
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This book is the biography of the author’s mother, Ellawese Darden.
Ellawese’s life, or “Peas” as her family called her due to her small form and stature, starts in Georgia in 1929. Or journey in reading the book also starts here and accompanies “Peas”’s life through her childhood and into her womanhood and later on focuses on her ability to heal people with prayers to God.
Ellawese revises memories of her childhood such as learning to work, going to school and later on dropping out. She even relates memories of her parents, of their lovely marriage during her first years and then her mother’s infidelity and its repercussions.
Moving on, she also relates her adult life, how she searches for her mother and then finds her with a child and then how she starts to work to help her mother, and even the boys she was interested in and later on broke her heart.
At the end, maybe the last chapter or so, she focuses almost completely in telling the readers about God and the power of prayer, how it saved her baby’s life when she drank poison by mistake and was given no chance at life by the doctors and then how she started to be a “warrior prayer” and how it helped in healing other people. She finishes by recollecting the work she has done with the church and how it improved her life and helped improve other’s.
The last paragraph ends with a positive view, a happy resignation that all that happened in her life was by God’s doing and was part of God’s big plan.
This book tells us how life was for poor African American families, how they were discriminated and treated unfairly, even though Ellawese’s recalling were never aimed to reproach this behavior but rather to simply recall the events as they were and, looking back the only censuring look ends up being the readers as they witness this bad behavior.
Overall, the book is very readable, light even. It has no grammatical, spelling or formatting errors. I strongly recommend this book for those interested in African American history, women’s history or even inspirational reading. I think the book is very enjoyable and endearing, even perfect for those who don’t like a heavier reading!
I rate this book, A Portrait of Mommy, with 4 out of 4 stars.
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A Portrait of Mommy
View: on Bookshelves |
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