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About This Book:

Title: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 1998
Hardcover, 1999
Prebinding, 1999
Paperback, 2000
Audio Cassette, 2001
Compact Disc, 2002

Synopsis
When Ava returns to her hometown to visit her sister, she becomes involved with Eddie Jefferson. The romance is threatened because each of them has a terrible secret: Ava is HIV-positive, and Eddie is a convicted murderer.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        244 Pages
Weight:        0.9 Pounds
Height:         8.5 Inches
Width:          6 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



Publisher Notes
As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson had always heard that, if you were young, black, and had any sense at all, Atlanta was the place to be. So as soon as she was old enough and able enough, that was where she went - parlaying her smarts and her ambition into one of the hottest hair salons in town. In no time, she was moving with the brothers and sisters who had beautiful clothes, big cars, bigger dreams, and money in the bank. Now, after more than a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living, Ava has come home, her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth. Ava Johnson has tested positive for HIV. And she's back in little Idlewild to spend a quiet summer with her widowed sister, Joyce, before moving on to finish her life in San Francisco, the most HIV-friendly place she can imagine. But what she thinks is the end is only the beginning because there's too much going down in her hometown for Ava to ignore. There's the Sewing Circus - sister Joyce's determined effort to educate Idlewild's young black women about sex, drugs, pregnancy, whatever...despite the interference of the good Reverend Anderson and his most virtuous, "just say no" wife. Plus Joyce needs a helping hand to make a loving home for Imani, an abandoned crack baby whom she's taken into her heart. And then there's Wild Eddie, whose legendary background in violence combined with his Eastern gentility has stirred Ava's interest...and something more.



Industry Reviews
"It takes talent to make a love story between an AIDS victim and a convicted murderer work, but playwright/essayist Cleage more than meets the challenge in this gutsy, very likable fiction debut....Watch out, Terry McMillan. Cleage is on your tail."
(10/01/1997)
"There is a wealth of poetry in Ava's efforts to keep her head above water. Following Cleage's twists and turns of the human spirit, readers may find themselves in a very inspired and uplifted plane well before the last page."
(02/01/1998)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day and it was written by Pearl Cleage. This edition of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is December 1997 and it has a suggested retail price of $20. There are 244 pages in the book and it was published by Harpercollins. The 10 digit ISBN is 038097584X and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780380975846. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.