- Hardcover
- 304 pages
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
- Anissa Gray
- 16 February 2017 Anissa Gray
- 1984802437
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you.The Butler family has had their share of trials as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives.Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband Proctor are arrested, and in a heartbeat the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace The worst part is, not even her sisters are sure exactly what happened.As Althea awaits her fate, Lillian and Viola must come together in the house they grew up in to care for their sister s teenage daughters What unfolds is a stunning portrait of the heart and core of an American family in a story that is as page turning as it is important. Best Download [ The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls ] by [ Anissa Gray ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – lemois-ess.org
She s never been good to me She s always been different with me. The Butler family Althea, Viola, Lillian and Joe had a rough childhood They ve each managed to escapebut not without scars. Althea, powerful and dominating, pulled her younger siblings up and out from squalor and raised them herself She finds herself in the center of a scandal and her world is rocked to the coreBut it was Althea and Proctor Cochran, people we trusted, who laid waste to the faith and loyalty of this who She s never been good to me She s always been different with me. The Butler family Althea, Viola, Lillian and Joe had a rough childhood They ve each managed to escapebut not without scars. Althea, powerful and domin...
4 starsFamilies seem to rally around each other in times of crisis, even dysfunctional ones where the relationships are complicated and where resentments and hurts have burdened them for many years This is such an impressive debut and Anissa Gray doesn t pull any punches here as the Butler siblings come together to care for their teenage nieces whose lives are upended when their parents are imprisoned for embezzling charity money The past relationships of three sisters, Althea, Lillian, Viola 4 starsFamilies seem to rally around each other in times of crisis, even dysfunctional ones where the relationships are complicated and where resentments and hurts have burdened them for many years This is such an impressive debut and Anissa Gray doesn t pull any punches here as the Butler siblings come together to care for their teenage nieces whose lives are upended when their parents are imprisoned for embezzling charity money The past relationships of three sisters, Althea, Lillian, Viola and their brother Joe come to the surface through the multiple narratives of the three sisters While their concern is for their two nieces and how best to care for them,...
5 Extremely Emotional Stars.Have you ever been so unprepared for a book that you were completely bowled over by it You start reading and the tears immediately runneth over A part of you recognizes the angst, the fear and the regret The inability to communicate the words that should be said but aren t Yeah for me, that book was The Care and ...
Sometimes life can pull a lot out of you Just squeeze you dry And if you don t have a way to get back whatever s good and precious to you, it s like losing your soulAn emotional, touching and heartfelt debut from Anissa Gray The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls put us right in the middle of family strife and dysfunction ensnaring our hearts, breaking them and eventually leaving us with a spark of hope for the future When we meet Althea and Joe Proctor they are in jail, foSometimes life can pull a lot out of you Just squeeze you dry And if you don t have a way to get back whatever s good and precious to you, it s like losing your soulAn emotional, touching and heartfelt debut from Anissa Gray The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls put us right in the middle of family strife and dysfunction ensnaring our hearts, breaking them and eventually leaving us with a spark of hope for the future When we meet Althea and Joe Proctor they are in jail, for embezzelment of charity funds Heartless scoundrels like these are not the kind of people you would have any pity for Yet, as with most things in life we come t...
A terrifically rendered novel of a family in crisis When Althea and her husband Proctor are arrested, they leave two teeen twin daughters in the care of their Aunt Lillian It is while in jail, and while the rest of this family tries to figure out how to help the girls, that little known secrets come spilling out Secrets of the past, after the death of their own mother, three sisters and one brother cope with being left with a father who had a terrible temper, a minister who was often away Th A terrifically rendered novel of a family in crisis When Althea and her husband Proctor are arrested, they leave two teeen twin daughters in the care of their Aunt Lillian It is while in jail, and while the rest of this family tries to figure out how to help the girls, that little known secrets come spilling out Secrets of the past, after the death of their own mother, three sisters and one brother cope with being left with a father who had a terrible temper, a minister who was often away Their care mainly in the hands of a young Althea, until their father decided to stay, divide up the family.A story with many layers, and under the layers, many scars Individual ways of dealing with the trauma that even as adults they do not want to face Scars that manifest in different ways, until they threaten to spill over into the next generation Written in a raw, honest manner, a thoroughly believable look at a terribly flawed family, but one that comes together in love to help two young gi...
My reviews can also be seen at StarsWith such an awesome title and cover I was immediately interested in getting my hands on this novel The description was intriguing The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you We first meet Althea Althea is telling us what jail is like She says it s a place My reviews can also be seen at StarsWith such an aweso...
I m between 4 and 4.5 stars here.First of all, how cool is the title of this book This powerful, poignant debut novel examines how easy family ties can go from comforting to smothering, and how the scars of youth can still prove damaging long into adulthood If, as a mother, I am my father s daughter, and I hate everything about him, what am I as a sister, who was all the mother they had Althea was littlethan a teenager when her mother died, leaving her to be a surrogate parent for her th I m between 4 and 4.5 stars here.First of all, how cool is the title of this book This powerful, poignant debut novel examines how easy family ties can go from comforting to smothering, and how the scars of youth can still prove damaging long into adulthood If, as a mother, I am ...
NOW AVAILABLE i need to stop being shocked when debuts are as good as this but ohhhh, man, this is one seriously impressive debut there have been a lot of comparisons made between this book and The Mothers, which i 100% seeagree, but The Turner House is another touchpoint worth mentioning, not only because they are both debut problem novels featuring contemporary african american families whose problems are both social racial and familial, but also because of the symbolic importance of NOW AVAILABLE i need to stop being shocked when debuts are as good as this but ohhhh, man, this is one seriously impressive debut there have been a lot of comparisons made between this book and The Mothers, which i 100% seeagree, but The Turner House is another touchpoint worth mentioning, not only because they are both debut problem novels featuring contemporary african american families whose problems are both social racial and familial, but also because of the symbolic importance of the physical home in both the childhood home preserved, changed, revisited in adulthood, its place in memory, as silent witness keeper of secrets, etc however, this one plays a little rougher...
Rating 4.5 I got an email one day asking if I was interested in reading this new book I never heard of the author or the book But they teased me.saying it s like Tayari Jones a recent find of an author who is becoming a favorite I immediately jumped at the offer to read it When it arrived, I figured I would throw it on the pile of books to eventually get to it But I opened it and read the first few lines and I was hooked Ultimately, this story is about family and the relationships betwe Rating 4.5 I got an email one day asking if I was intere...
3.5 Stars rounded up The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls follows a family dealing with the fallout after a sister mother and her husband are convicted and subsequently sent to prison for stealing money from a charity they created In no time at all I felt a kinship with these characters because I have dealt with similar circumstances within my own family My mother was imprisoned when I was 13 years old which provides me with a different point of view than most readers of this book 3.5 Stars rounded up The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls follows a family dealing with the fallout after a sister mother and her husband are convicted and subsequently sent to prison for stealing money from a charity they created In no time at all I felt a kinship with these characters because I have dealt with similar circumstances within my own family My mother was imprisoned when I was 13 years old which provides me with a different point of view than most readers of this book.That being said, I feel like the perspective of the girls ...