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...sister move to L.A., narrates the story. The novel unfolds when, some years later, Sam visits them for the first time since their departure from Rhode Island. To him, his manic depressive mother--who likes to call herself "Jewel"--and his rebellious younger sister, Ginny, live in a turbulent household on Sun Dial Street. Their lives are filled with chaos and animosity...
Without the constant attention Leonard Jeffries received from the press during the last year, he would still be an unknown Afro-American studies professor from City University of New York--not someone who spoke to a packed Sanders Theatre and certainly not a household name. This same rationale seems to explain why fringe political groups and bigots always seem so enthusiastic to appear on shows like "Geraldo" or "Donahue," despite the fact that they know that they will, practically without exception, be deplored and ridiculed by the audience...
Recent census data shows that nearly 50 percent of Blacks earn an annual household income below $15,000 compared to 22 percent of whites. And only 39 percent of Black children under 18--compared to three quarters of all American children--live in two parent families...
...seems to me one of the few basic expectations of municipal government is that it be able to pick up the household garbage regularly, and that the streets be cleaned, most particularly the heavy traffic areas of the city," he says...
...chronic diseases such as diabetes. But more are clearly demented. They show up in emergency rooms with acute problems like dehydration. Elderly people who live alone are sometimes so desperate for help that they in effect abandon themselves. Others are dumped not by relatives but by landlords and even household employees. In Greenville, N.C., a 65-year-old alcoholic woman materialized on the doorstep of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital after she was shoved out of a car by a fed-up and weary maid...