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    The Warmest December

    By Bernice L. McFadden and James Frey

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    "McFadden's reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism . . . This is not a story of easy redemption . . . McFadden writes candidly about the treacherous hold of addiction."
    --Publishers Weekly

    "Riveting. . . . So nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes."
    --Toni Morrison, author of Beloved

    "The sharpness of the prose and power of the story make it hard to stop reading even the most brutal scenes . . . The story feels real perhaps because it’s familiar . . . Or maybe, as Frey points out, the story is too vivid to be read purely as fiction. But in this Precious-style novel, genre is the least of our concerns."
    --Bust magazine

    "This is a story that cuts across all race and social strata in its need to be told."
    --The Dallas Morning News

    The Warmest December is the incredibly moving story of one Brooklyn family and the alcoholism that determined years of their lives. Narrated by Kenzie Lowe, a young woman reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, as she visits her dying father and finds that choices she once thought beyond her control are very much hers to make.

    Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateJan 31, 2012
    ISBN9781617751110
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    Bernice L. McFadden

    Bernice L. McFadden is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels including Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), Glorious, and The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction). She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA.

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      I loved this book . This is a first read from this author . I was disappointed in the ending of the story . I wanted Kinsey to never visit her father but I get it . The ending and lesson are needed in order to move on from hurt and generational curses . I’m just not ready to be this strong personally !