What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
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| Author | Pearl Cleage |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Avon |
Publication date | 1 December 1997 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (first edition hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-380-97584-X (first edition hardcover) |
| OCLC | 37024133 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.L389 W48 1997 |
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is a novel by Pearl Cleage, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1998. The book focuses on a black woman who has moved back to her Michigan hometown following a positive diagnosis for HIV. The novel was Cleage's first.
Characters
- Ava Johnson: the protagonist. She moved back to live with her sister in Idlewild, Michigan after she was diagnosed with HIV. She was a successful hairdresser in Atlanta, Georgia before her patrons learned she had HIV.
- Joyce Mitchell: Ava's older sister. She was married to Mitch before he died in a freak accident. She runs The Sewing Circus, a church group focused on providing sexual education to and empowering young mothers.
- Mitch Mitchell: Joyce's husband before he died in a freak accident.
- Eddie Jefferson: Mitch and Joyce's best friend, who later becomes romantically involved with Ava.
- Imani: a crack baby Joyce and Ava take custody of.
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