About this title: When Ava returns to her hometown to visit her sister, she becomes involved with Eddie Jefferson. The romance is threatened because each of them has a terrible secret: Ava is HIV-positive, and Eddie is a convicted murderer.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780380794874ISBN:038079487X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Oprah's Book Club (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780380794874ISBN:038079487X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are clean and bright, no marks, cover has wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Oprah's Book Club (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
"Not sure about this one. Started off boring enough to make me fall sleep. I knew it being an Oprah book I wouldn't be all about it. The story clunked along with not much to go on. It was very predictable, even in a world I'm not part of. I knew on every turn what was going to happen. Then the end happened....what the hell kind of ending was that? I felt like it just stopped. I don't like when the epilogues explain quickly what should have been explained in more chapters. That bugged me. All of the writing was surface/generic. I didn't "care" about the characters...(except that poor baby at the end). It seemed like the author just wanted to get the story out there and didn't want to build on the characters except to tell you why they were/weren't bad.
"I actually dumped this book after reading it....I found it less than well written...suppose there was some deeper meaning in there, but just too hard to sort out! Call me a dummy if you must. Just couldn't get into this book."
"Living with HIV positive test results is different now than it was when this book was written. What's not different is how the disease changes your life and your relationships. The book also has a great relationship between characters. The main character is someone you might want to have coffee with - interesting, complex."
"Great book about life is what you make of it. When trying to change crack-heads into upstanding persons, every day seems harder and harder. Knowing that she has HIV her older sister and a concerned friend change Ava's life more than she would ever expected. Joyce the older sister is completely compassionate to others well being. The reverends wife Gerry Anderson creates quite a stir in all that is good. Determination gets Joyce to continue in her mission to better this town. Along the way Ava finds herself attracted to a man who also contains positive energy and helps to save this town and Ava from the negative and opens her eyes to the lessons in life."
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