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195 kr
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Set in wealthy community in Northern Michigan, RISING is the story of nine-year-old Symone who is mysteriously adopted by the Hustons - a "shameless family with a house at the top of the hill"- after her mother dies of a drug overdose. Although Symone is all too happy to leave the Dorchester projects behind, she can't help but wonder why this rich white couple would come to the ghetto to adopt a "black girl who looked white". Soon Symone discovers that the Hustons aren't her saviours, but instead have delivered her into another kind of hell. Years later, she escapes only to return again, realising that she must face the demons of her past if she has any hope of surviving the future.
322 kr
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Michael Hughes, a twenty-nine-year-old clock watcher, is almost out of time; Michael believes, "I am running the last leg of a twenty-six-mile marathon and if I don't make it to the finish line with an employed husband, a secure home and some ready- made fertilized eggs, my uterus is going to explode." The daughter of two dysfunctional parents, Michael is in constant battle with her sexuality and incessant appetite for "tight butts and big soft lips" which leads her in a relentless pursuit of "the one." Then she meets Eddie Matsen and things are finally going to change. And they do...just not in the way she expected.
182 kr
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For Vanessa, the low income housing complex in the middle of the desert in El Mirage, Arizona represents all that is wrong with her life. Her neighbours get it on all night long, she sees an abusive husband kill his wife and then himself, and her own ex-husband keeps showing up and getting into her pants. The one bright spot in Vanessa's life is her daughter, Kennedy, and her love for the piano. Kennedy is practicing to audition for an esteemed music academy that Vanessa can in no way afford, especially after losing her housekeeping job. But Vanessa isn't one to give up and she'll do anything to help her daughter succeed, even if it means sacrificing her own chances for a better life.