What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Oprah’s Book Club)
November 14, 2008
“PerfectBound e-book extra: A Reading Group Guide to What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. The classic smash bestseller and Oprah fave is now an e-book. After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living among the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and the 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 is 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.”
Customer Review: …..
I am currently working my way thru this book right now. So far, I am really enjoying it. It is a down to earth, REAL telling of what this woman is going thru. So far, so good. I would def. recommend to a friend.
Customer Review: what looks like chick lit is actually better
Pearl Cleage’s What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is the
story of a young woman who finds out that she’s HIV-positive.
She leaves Atlanta and comes home to Michigan to live with her
sister. The novel deals with a small-town’s reaction to finding
out about her illness; her sister also is a widower trying to
rebuild her life. The novel has just enough Terry McMillan-type
drama in it to be engaging but doesn’t become too over-the-top
or too preachy. Cleage’s gift is in her ability to write a
story with very subtle messages. A surprisingly refreshing book! Buy from here…
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