Product Details
- * Pub. Date: February 1999
- * Weight : 0.6000
- * Dimensions : 0.79" H x 8.12" L x 5.54" w
- * Formats : No
- * ISBN : 688166407
- * Publisher : Harper Perennial
- * Book Theme : Literary
- * Book Type : Trade Paperback
Description
Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, "Tempest Rising" tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. He disappears and is presumed dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. The girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens they are living in foster care in a working-class neighborhood.
