In this inspiring memoir, the award-winning playwright and
bestselling author of "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day"
reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and
politics while working to become a successful writer.
In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in
America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book
Club pick and multiple awards to her credit. But there was a time
when such stellar success seemed like a dream. In this revelatory
and deeply personal work, Cleage takes readers back to the 1970s
and '80s, retracing her struggles to hone her craft amidst personal
and professional tumult.
Though born and raised in Detroit, it was in Atlanta that Cleage
encountered the forces that would most shape her experience.
Married to Michael Lomax, now head of the United Negro College
Fund, she worked with Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first
African-American mayor. "Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs" charts
not only the political fights, but also the pull she began to feel
to focus on her own passions, including writing--a pull that led
her away from Lomax as she grappled with ideas of feminism and
self-fulfillment. This fascinating memoir follows her journey from
a columnist for a local weekly (bought by Larry Flynt) to a
playwright and Hollywood script writer, an artist at the crossroads
of culture and politics whose circle came to include luminaries
like Richard Pryor, Avery Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Shirley
Franklin, and Jesse Jackson. By the time Oprah Winfrey picked "What
Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day" as a favorite, Cleage had long
since arrived as a writer of renown.
In the tradition of greats like Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and Nora
Ephron, Cleage's self-portrait raises women's confessional writing
to the level of great literature.
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