Repossessing Ernestine: A Granddaughter Uncovers the Secret History of Her American Family

by Marsha Hunt

Book Overview

Not a typical family memoir yet a quintessentially American story, Repossessing Ernestine centers on an African American woman's impassioned search for her grandmother and confronts such important... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060174439
• ISBN13: 9780060174439
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Can we have some more, please?

I read this book some years ago. I even called a friend who now lives once more in her home town of Memphis, TN. She assured me of the accuracy of events and names. Reading this book was equivalent to eating and enjoying a good multi-course meal. However, before I could finish the dessert, the table was cleared. As with many, if not all readers of this book, I hope that there will be a follow up book delving further for explanations. We are left hanging in mid air over quite a few issues. Does Marsha Hunt feel she gave all that she felt we needed to know, or did she grow weary and/or scared of finding more answers? Truly she cannot be content with the finality she offered to us. Still, bravo to her for her determination.

Touching

I must firstly disagree with the review that I have read. This book was capturing, and I was unable to put it down, I was reading in ques, while travelling and staying awake late into the night to finish it. I am a Mental Health nurse, and can understand the chain of events in Ernestine's life, especially in the era which she lived. Ms Hunt did an exceptional job of locating her 'lost and forgotten' grandmother, and whatever her motivation was, she appeared to increase the quality of Ernestine's life. I would be interested to learn how she spent the following years. Again Ms Hunt is to be commended. I have recommended the book to many friends,who have all enjoyed it, and after four years, I recommended it to another friend only last week.