{"product_id":"what-looks-like-crazy-on-an-ordinary-day-9780380975846","title":"What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed Playwright  essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American womens literature--with a debut novel that sings and crackles with life-affirming energy as it moves the reader to laughter and tears. As a girl growing up in Idlewild  Michigan  Ava Johnson had always heard that  if you were young  black  and had any sense at all  Atlanta was the place to be. So as soon as she was old enough and able enough  that was where she went--parlaying her smarts and her ambition into one of the hottest hair salons in town. In no time  she was moving with the brothers and sisters who had beautiful clothes  big cars  bigger dreams  and money in the bank. Now  after more than a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living  Ava has come home  her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth. Ava Johnson has tested positive for HIV. And shes back in little Idlewild to spend a quiet summer with her widowed sister  Joyce  before moving on to finish her life in San Francisco  the most HIV-friendly place she can imagine. But what she thinks is the end is only the beginning because theres too much going down in her hometown for Ava to ignore. Theres the Sewing Circus--sister Joyces determined effort to educate Idlewilds young black women about sex  drugs  pregnancy  whatever. . .despite the interference of the good Reverend Anderson and his most virtuous  \"Just say no\" wife. Plus Joyce needs a helping hand to make a loving home for Imani  an abandoned crack baby whom shes taken into her heart. And then theres Wild Eddie  whose legendary background in violence combined with his Eastern gentility has stirred Avas interest. . .and something more. In the ten-plus years since Ava left  all the problems of the big city--drugs  crime  disease have come home to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away. Now she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Things are getting very interesting in Idlewild these days. Besides which  the unthinkable thing has started happening: Ava Johnson is failing in love. A remarkable novel sizzling with sensuality  rollicking with wild humor  and humming with gritty truth  in What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. . .Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character  human drama  and deep  compassionate understanding. As a girl growing up in Idlewild  Michigan  Ava Johnson had always heard that  if you were young  black  and had any sense at all  Atlanta was the place to be. So as soon as she was old enough and able enough  that was where she went--parlaying her smarts and her ambition into one of the hottest hair salons in town. In no time  she was moving with the brothers and sisters who had beautiful clothes  big cars  bigger dreams  and money in the bank. Now  after more than a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living  Ava has come home  her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth. Ava Johnson has tested positive for HIV. And shes back in little Idlewild to spend a quiet summer with her widowed sister  Joyce  before moving on to finish her life in San Francisco  the most HIV-friendly place she can imagine. And then theres Wild Eddie  whose legendary back ground in violence combined with his Eastern gentility has stirred Avas interest...and something more. In the ten-plus years since Ava left all the problems of the big city--drugs  crime  disease--have come home to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away. Now she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Things are getting very interesting in Idlewild these days. Besides which  the unthinkable thing has started happening: Ava Johnson is falling in love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646643396661,"sku":"ByrdShop_038097584X","price":30.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780380975846_cb5d53b3-4b84-4c75-a3f9-5313315c5b68.jpg?v=1781676650","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-looks-like-crazy-on-an-ordinary-day-9780380975846","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}