What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Oprah's Book Club)

238 Pages·2002·4.93 MB·English

by  Pearl Cleage

What looks like Crazy
on an ordinary day…

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For Bill Bagwell,
21st-century love warrior

Contents
PerfectBound e-book extra:A Reading Group Guide
to What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day…
June i’m sitting at the bar…
July dear sister mitchell:
August now that her first meeting…
September i woke up this morning…
November we didn’t plan to have…
An Excerpt from I Wish I Had a Red Dress
About the Author
Books by Pearl Cleage
Credits
Copyright
Cover
About the Publisher

• acknowlegdments
This book could not have been written without the love and sup-
port of my daughter, Deignan Cleage Lomax, and my husband,
Zaron W. Burnett, Jr. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I also thank my family and friends, especially my sister,
Kristen Cleage Williams, and my father, Jaramogi Abebe
Agyman, Debbie Thomas-Bryan and Don Bryan, Jimmie Lee
Tarver, Walter R. Huntley, Jr., Melanie Lomax, Woodie King,
Jr., Andrea Hairston, Kenny Leon and Carol Mitchell Leon,
Cecilia Corbin Hunter, Carolyn Monteilh, Valerie Boyd, A.B.
and Karen Spellman, Brother Kefing, The Mongo, Ingrid
Saunders Jones, and last but never least, Jondrè Pryor, who
brought the good news.
Thanks also to Pat Lottier and the Atlanta Tribune, Susan
Taylor and Essence magazine, Denise Stinson, Howard
Rosenstone, Johnnetta Cole and Spelman College, and Carrie
Feron, for their support and assistance.

I will bring you a whole person
and you will bring me a whole person
and we will have us twice as much
of love and everything . . .
“Celebration,” Mari Evans