ONYX READS
SISTER GIRL BOOKS FOR YOU NEXT CLUB MEETING. BY PATRICIA BROWN DENIS
EARTHA & KITT: A DAUGHTER'S LOVE STORY IN BLACK AND WHITE By Kitt Shapiro with Patricia Weiss Levy If your mother is famous but you don’t look anything like her, it could make you want to explain the relationship. What winds up being more important than how they look is revealed through the eyes of the only daughter of Eartha Kitt who asks the reader to understand that no one should have to explain their parentage.
ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE: AND OTHER THINGS MY DAUGHTERS TAUGHT ME By Jamie Foxx Stories of women often ignore the influences that men have had on their lives. This is Jamie Foxx’s story of parenting his daughters. Foxx often speaks of his upbringing with fond references to his loving grandparents who raised him. It’s no surprise that he attributes his fatherly guidance as wisdom from his grandmother. You find that he also learns from his own children and considers their relationship the best guide for good parenting. The forward by his daughter is a peak at the basis of the work.
THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN By Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Many major corporations would not be what they are today had it not been for the women who ran them from behind the scenes. This novel is based on the true story of the life of the librarian to the financial maverick JP Morgan’s private collection. She doesn’t take over the place, but her life certainly takes her places. The fact that she gets a referral from the moguls’ nephew is precisely the influence she will need career trajectory. The moment she had prepared for through her personal life that becomes the most interesting circumstance of how she managed to be in their presence in the first place. The best word for the story of Belle da Costa Greene is riveting.
ASSUME NOTHING By Tanya Selvaratnam As we have faced a national health crisis, isolation, and uncertainty, we have also witnessed a rise in cruelty, and domestic violence. The table of contents for this novel, which is based on a true story of power, corruption, and abuse, begins with the opening chapter called Fairy Tale. As many victims will attest to their experience starting in the same manner.
BLACK CAKE A NOVEL By Charmaine Wilkerson Wilkerson’s debut novel about a family, a matriarch, and a beloved Caribbean holiday sweet cake. There’s something about dessert and death that brings families together.
HELLO SUNSHINE By Laura Dave If you have ever had your identity stolen, or wonder about having your accounts hacked this story will cause a pause and ring with familiarity for many of us. What happens to the character in the struggle to regain her image is the key to making the difference for her world, once managed through social media.
LIVING IN COLOR: WHAT’S FUNNY ABOUT ME By Tommy Davidson The characters Davidson created on the hit show, In Living Color, make it easy to consider what tales he has from behind the scenes of the show, shared in his book. His take on the experiences that made him funny to millions of viewers of the hit show is worth the read.
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY By Bonnie Garmus This is an interesting story of how taking a career of obscurity to a sensation can happen with the proper team. That team has power they don’t always recognize or use. The character Elizabeth Zott has seen herself have a meteoric rise and a plummet to earth that she has to analyze as the premise for the story. Patricia Brown Denis is an educator and a writer in Tampa, Fla. ONYX MAGAZINE 47
