In the moving Love Can Move Mountains, author Elizabeth Atkins Bowman explores the meaning of the African-American saying, “Mountain, get out of my way!” in a story about the miraculous, mysterious power of a mother’s stand-firm love. In Arethia Hornsby’s My Momma Said’, two friends go out on the town and get schooled in a life lesson that proves the truth behind the ages-old African-American proverb, Never judge a book by its cover. Town gossip gets the best of a loyal wife and gives credence to C.F. Pope’s saying, Never declare war unless you mean to do battle, in Gwynne Forster’s wry tale of comeuppance, First Thing Monday Morning. And in the flirty short story, Something Special, Venise Berry shows what the Cape Verde Islands maxim, Every week has its Friday really means as one woman’s weekly ritual promises seven days’ worth of sensual satisfaction.
In addition to such established writers as Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timmothy McCann, Brandon Massey, Kambon Obayani, Earl Sewell, Maxine Thompson, and others, here, too, are rising stars in the African-American literary world, including fourteen-year-old Kharel Price and fifteen-year-old Tierra French, proving that the wisdom of the past lives on in the next generation.
From the struggle to break the chains of the past, (Pat G’Orge-Walker’s The Consequence) to the fight to keep hope alive in the face of injustice, (Robert Fleming’s A Crisis of Faith), from the joys of loving an older woman (Parry “Ebony Satin” Brown‘s Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do), to an African man’s discovery of his own America (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Women Here Drive Buses), this triumphant, stirring anthology is a glorious reminder of the power of proverbs to heal, to provoke, to unify, and to inspire.
Fleming’s Work is also included in:
Dark Matter: The Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction by Black Writers http://authors.aalbc.com/excerptdarkmatter.htm
Some of Robert Flemings Reviews and Interviews on AALBC.com
List of Reviews by Robert Fleming on AALBC.com http://aalbc.it/robertflemingbookreviews
Three Days Before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison http://aalbc.com/reviews/three_days_before_the_shooting.html
Interview with asha bandele http://authors.aalbc.com/ashe_bandele_interview.htm
Interview with Colin Channer http://aalbc.com/authors/colin_channer_interview.htm
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/beasts_of_no_nation.htm
With Billie by Julia Blackburn http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/with_billie.htm
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor Edited by Paul Beatty http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/hokum1.htm
Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story by asha bandele http://reviews.aalbc.com/something_like_beautiful.htm
Additional works:
(C) Dale Shields
