sharonfalduto 's review for:

I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage

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We are back in exclusively black Idylwild, Michigan, with Joyce--older sister of the protagonist from "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day." Joyce is a widow, trying to straighten out the lives of the young girls in town, and finally letting herself fall in love again. Somehow I find all these characters quite relatable, even though I have very little in common with them.