![]() But it's reward enough just to spend more time with this feisty, close-knit family, whose loyalty to and love for each other trump everything else. ![]() As a plot device, an argument between two grannies can't quite match the events that drove One Crazy Summer and P.S. The back-and-forth allows Williams-Garcia to unspool the Gaithers' complex family history: as slaves, as blacks in the segregated south, and in relation to the Native Americans who once called the area home. The bickering between these sisters is as annoying as it is authentic, and it mirrors a long-simmering feud between Ma Charles (Big Ma's mother) and her half-sister, Miss Trotter, who uses Vonetta to send spiteful messages back to Ma Charles. Delphine, now 12, again narrates (which must make Vonetta spitting mad). Be Eleven (2013), are off to spend the summer in Alabama with Big Ma. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, the sisters who captured readers’ hearts in One Crazy Summer (2010) and P.S. It's 1969, and Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are spending the summer with Big Ma, their father's mother, and a passel of other vividly drawn relatives. by Rita Williams-Garcia RELEASE DATE: ApThe coping skills of three sisters are put to the test as they leave Brooklyn for a rural summer in 1969 Alabama. ![]() For their third outing, the irrepressible Gaither sisters of Brooklyn get on a Greyhound bus bound for Alabama. ![]()
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