What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American women's 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…