It's All About The Moon When The Sun Ain't Shining - Hill, Ernest
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With his lyrical storytelling and unerring ear for dialogue, Ernest Hill has been praised as "remarkable" (Robert Olen Butler) and "a skilled storyteller" ("The New York Times Book eview). In this latest novel, he portrays the emotionally-resonant story of a young man's struggle to pursue his dreams and find the woman who can share his life. It's year of firsts for Maurice Dupree. He's the first person in his family to go to college. and now he's well of his way to becoming the first African American attorney in his hometown of Brownsville, Louisiana, and its entire parish. His parents…mehr

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With his lyrical storytelling and unerring ear for dialogue, Ernest Hill has been praised as "remarkable" (Robert Olen Butler) and "a skilled storyteller" ("The New York Times Book eview). In this latest novel, he portrays the emotionally-resonant story of a young man's struggle to pursue his dreams and find the woman who can share his life. It's year of firsts for Maurice Dupree. He's the first person in his family to go to college. and now he's well of his way to becoming the first African American attorney in his hometown of Brownsville, Louisiana, and its entire parish. His parents couldn't be more proud, and Maurice has every reason to look forward to the future. Awarded a scholarship to a good school, his dreams seem to be coming true--"except for one. If only the woman he loved, the woman he'd hoped to marry since high school, were as happy for him as everyone else is. Omenita Jones isn't planning on waiting three more minutes, much less three more years, to finally start her life with Maurice. If he wants to go to law school, that's fine. But she won't be waiting when he's finished. She's young, desirable, and tired--"tired of living with her alcoholic daddy and her weak-willed mama, and tired of waiting for Maurice to stop being a student and start earning a living. She loves him, but if she can't be with him. she'll find someone else. And that someone else may be just around the corner.
"Hill offers a poignant portrait of a young man at a crossroads, struggling with the true meaning of love and torn between the pleadings of the women in his life." -Booklist Maurice Dupree is the first person in his family to go to college, and now he's on his way to becoming the first African American attorney in his hometown. If only the woman he loved, the woman he'd hoped to marry since high school, were as happy for him as everyone else is. Omenita Jones isn't planning on waiting three more minutes, much less three more years, to start her life with Maurice. If he wants to go to law school, that's fine. But she won't be waiting when he's finished. Feeling more alone than ever, Maurice finds an unexpected ally in a young white woman. Danielle Davenport is the daughter of an influential judge. Maurice's mother is the Davenports' longtime housekeeper. As his friendship with this compassionate woman grows, she becomes a source of strength when he makes a stunning choice, one that will put everything-and everyone-he believes in to the test.
Autorenporträt
ERNEST HILL won great praise for his first novel, Satisfied with Nothin', which made its way onto required reading lists at universities from UCLA to Syracuse. He is also the author of A Person of Interest, Cry Me a River, A Life for a Life, and Family Ties. Hill lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.