Half a Heart (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rosellen Brown
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1960’s to 1990’s
- Setting: Mississippi and Houston, Texas
- Principal Characters: Miriam Vener, Veronica “Ronnee” Reece, Eljay Reece, Jewel Proctor
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, 1970’s, Mothers, Parents and children, Race, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Mississippi, 1990’s, Texas
- Locales: Mississippi, Houston, TX
Half a Heart is, above all, a novel dealing with relationships—all kinds of relationships, but especially those between mothers and daughters. Those relationships lead to conflicts and confrontations, and there are a great number of conflicts in this book. It is a book that begins in the late 1990’s and goes back to the turbulent 1960’s. The conflicts of that troubled time are then visited upon the calm end of the twentieth century. However, while there are more than enough conflicts to fill this and another novel, the resolution of those conflicts is very weak.
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