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...STAFFER APPROACHES AND GREETS US: "HEY BOYS, MY NAME'S BOOGIE." WE check out Boogie. He's large black man with a black stocking cap. Two young women stand at his side. "And these," he continues, "are my friends Tatyana and Delia." We check out Tatyana and Delia. One looks like Tootie from "The Facts of Life," the other, Jackee from...
Boogie explains, "These two ladies are gonna join you in line. Okay?" We nod our assent. "Okay," Boogie confirms. Boogie has a bad case of wandering hands. While he stands and chats with his friends, he massages Delia's rear. She doesn't object. Boogie buries his head in Delia's inviting locks. "Ooooh baby," he moans, "you've got a nice weave." Tatyana roars in amusement. Delia is not pleased...
...Delia is a pop singer who leaves a mean husband and two baby daughters in Cayro, Ga., to run off to Los Angeles with rock star Randall Pritchard and his pretty-good band, Mud Dog. Ten years later, her homing instinct kicks in after Randall is killed in the spectacular motorcycle wreck that hooks the reader on the first page of the novel...
Exhausted by fleeting fame, too much alcohol and yearning for the girls she left behind, Delia heads east to rescandalize Cayro. With her is Cissy, her daughter by Randall, and the precocious young spelunker of the book's title...
Allegorists as well as just plain readers should feel at home in Cavedweller, a mix of down-home authenticity, old-time religion and neo-paganism. Delia, the prodigal mother, returns to the fold, but only after parading her suffering before the righteous. Born in California's stupefying sunshine, Cissy finds inspiration exploring Georgia's inky caverns: a "confrontation with God in the imagined body of a woman, the mama-core...