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Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable
middle-class, middle-aged, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia
have four eminently marriageable daughters--or so their mother
believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the
hopes that one day each would find her true prince. But princes are
far from the mind of their second-born daughter, Elizabeth (AKA
Bliss), who, in the aftermath of a messy divorce, has moved back
home and thrown herself into earning her PhD.
From an inside peek at the inner workings of Hollywood to the backstage drama of Broadway, from a poignant look at the black upper class to an honest look at the WASP elite, this elegantly wrought memoir of an extraordinary family has something for everyone. Growing up with a black Auntie Mame-like mother (who performed with the likes of Lena Horne) and an Anglo sea-faring father, Susan Fales-Hill moved seamlessly between many worlds. But it was from her mother -- a woman who was dressed by Givenchy and sculpted by Alexander Calder, yet rejected by many a casting agent for her "dark," unconventional looks -- that Susan drew inspiration, particularly when she faced challenges in her own career as a television writer in Hollywood, a town that wasn't always receptive to positive images of people of color. As a result the two developed a bond that mothers and daughters everywhere will find inspiring. Both a universally touching mother-daughter story and a portrait of a dazzling American family, Always Wear Joy is a memoir readers won't soon forget.
What happens after happily-ever-after fades? Can the answer be
found one flight up?
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