Written on-line book club discusses BeBe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

The late BeBe Moore Campbell helped start the modern commercial fiction movement in the African American genre with the books Brothers and Sisters, 72 Hour Hold, What You Owe Me and Singing in the Come Back Choir. Her first novel, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine masterfully moves across time and color lines to bring a moving story that will have the reader feeling a full range of emotions. Publisher Weekly wrote “Written in poetic prose, filled with masterfully drawn and sympathetic characters that a less able hand might have rendered in stereotypes, this first novel blends the irony of Flannery O'Connor's fiction and the poignance of Harper Lee's. Moving quickly and believably from the eve of integration in rural Mississippi to the present-day street gangs in Chicago's housing projects, Campbell captures the gulf between pre-and post-civil rights America; her story, starting with the murder of a young black man whose trial--argued before an all-white jury--captures national attention, shows us how far we have come and yet suggests we have not come so far after all.”