Rosellen Brown's extraordinary new novel, Half a Heart, tells the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980's. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter, born of Miriam's passionate affair a generation ago with Eljay, a brilliant black professor at a Mississippi college, who has raised the child ever since. When Miriam introduces her daughter to the utterly white New England town where she summers, and to the Houston society which represents the compromise of her sixties ideals, the results are complicated: What claim does Miriam have on Ronnee after all this time, and what does Ronnee want of her mother now?
Ronnee wrestles with her fury at her mother's mysterious disappearance from her life. With which family -- and which race -- does Ronnee identify?
Half a Heart is a profoundly moving story about estrangement and intimacy, race and privilege, identity and belonging.
Ronnee wrestles with her fury at her mother's mysterious disappearance from her life. With which family -- and which race -- does Ronnee identify?
Half a Heart is a profoundly moving story about estrangement and intimacy, race and privilege, identity and belonging.
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Hardback Editions
June 2001 : Hardback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 1-58724-017-3 / 9781587240171 (USA edition) Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-374-29987-0 / 978-0-374-29987-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA WorldCat More details... |
May 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-374-93384-7 / 978-0-374-93384-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1999 : Hardback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-374-16772-9 / 978-0-374-16772-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1991 : Hardback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-374-44013-1 / 978-0-374-44013-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA WorldCat More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-312-27830-6 / 978-0-312-27830-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown Publisher: Farrar Availability: Amazon More details... |
1991 : Paperback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1979 : Paperback
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown Publisher: KC Publications Availability: Amazon More details... |
Audio Editions
February 2001 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Half a Heart: Complete & Unabridged Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-7927-2414-3 / 978-0-7927-2414-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Sound Library Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2000 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Half a Heart Author(s): Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0-7435-0579-4 / 978-0-7435-0579-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon and Schuster Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
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