Shawne Johnson- Getting Our Breath Back / 1st Edition 1st Printing / Hardcover [NOVEL]

Getting Our Breath Back
Shawne Johnson

Published by Dutton, 2002. First edition. First Printing. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 261 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel.

Violet, Lilly, and Rose know how it feels to be black women trying to find their place in a changing white world. Violet, the eldest, grows up believing in the myth of the southern belle... Lilly is an ex-Black Panther and writer caught up in the stormy aftermath of the sixties... Rose is the youngest, a sculptor who has shaped herself in the image of an independent black woman grounded in the political movements of her time. 

Getting Our Breath Back is a story of struggle and forgiveness, of separation and reconciliation. of women who must reinvent themselves if they are to survive, to heal, and to flourish.