Brothers and Sisters | 
 enlarge | Author: Bebe Moore Campbell
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 609544
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0425149404
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425149409
ASIN: 0425149404
Publication Date: September 1, 1995
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Condition: The front cover of this book has small crimped corners, The inside cover and the back cover on the inside has a persons written name. The pages are clear and legible.
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Book Description
"This book is about succeeding--and surviving--even being happy, in a society where every card seems stacked against you. If this is a fair world, Bebe Moore Campbell will be remembered as the most important African-American novelist of this century--except for, maybe, Ralph Ellison and James Bladwin"-- Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World
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 Captivating and Mesmerizing March 24, 2008
This book was certainly a good read. It has rich characters and shows how each character views varying incidents with different viewpoints. I found it to be true to life and realistic in its portrayal of a society in which race does matter.
The book also spoke on the issue of business sabotage and ruthless ambition, issues that are not commonly dealt with.
I gave this book four stars, but that was only because, even though interesting and spicy, could have been shorter.
 Rich and Diverse November 7, 2007
The story takes place in California with the Rodney King & Reginald Denny 'occurences' as a backdrop for this rich and diverse novel.The author is excellent at descriptions and characterizations and unflinching in her portrayals of difficult social issues. Using many plots and subplots the story deals with man/woman relationships,friendships, sexism and racism in the corporate world and elsewhere, affirmative action, family life and how adult life can be shaped by childhood experiences and much, much more...
Highly recommended.
 Reading it now...page after page after page of stereotypes June 15, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just started this book today, and it's already off to a bad start. I am so sick of books like this: angry black women who look out for racism in everyone around them, yet have racist monologues running in their heads. It makes for a very annoying and hypocritical lead character, and that lead becomes someone I am unable to relate to and root for.
I've read a few chapters, and honestly, I am not sure if I will finish it. I would have to find at least one redeeming quality in these characters, and it's not looking good.
Character Driven July 8, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was an average read for me. I found that it was not a plot driven book but focused more on the characters. It could get a bit boring at times but the conflict within the characters was magnificent. Mallory was my favorite character. Her naivity was so mirror image of a lot of white women. Eventhough this was written almost a decade ago, the racial tensions are still prevalent today. I would recommend this book to anyone but would warn them that it is not the most exciting novel to read. It will teach more than it will entertain.
Racial differences March 31, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Esther Jackson is a strikingly beautiful black woman, well educated who, by sheer hard work and determination, has forged herself a place in the upper eschelon of the banking world. She is striving to become a loans officer, knowing that she has the ability to go all the way to the top of her profession but being held back by the glass ceiling which stalls women and black women in particular. Her unlikely friend is a blonde, beautiful Valley girl who has had all the advantages of a wealthy background but lacks the one thing she craves, the love of her father. She has been trying to compensate for this lack with a series of affairs with older, successful married men, only to be rejected time and time again. Their story and the story of their friendship which struggles almost daily to overcome the differences in their cultures, is a most interesting one, with prejudices of both races coming to the fore...I dound it to be most illuminating.
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