Family secrets haunt Anna Rose Harris, a bright sensitive, African American 14-year-old girl. She is forced to leave her small town in Mississippi to live with a mother she barely knows in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio. While there, Anna begins searching for family secrets - why her mother did not raise her.
This is a story of healing, which demonstrates how, with God's love; a tragedy can be turned into triumph!
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Reviewed by Angie Mangino * Rating: FIVE STARS
Family secrets haunt Anna Rose Harris, a bright, sensitive, black 14-year-old girl. She is forced to leave her small town in Mississippi in 1987 to live with a mother she barely knows in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio.
Annetta P. Lee wrote a powerful story that reaches not just young readers, but has a message to adults, too. She was able to bring me into Anna's heart, seeing things as she did and then discovering what she discovered.
I found myself angry with her, afraid with her and able to cry with her as she searched for love and acceptance in her quest to know who she was.
Lee, an author who can elicit such empathy in the reader, bridging over age, race and religion, has done a tremendous job "A Bitter Rose."
