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4.2/5
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Publication date
  
1 December 1997

Originally published
  
1 December 1997

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
United States of America

3.7/5
Goodreads

Language
  
English

Dewey Decimal
  
813/.54 21

Author
  
Pearl Cleage

Publisher
  
Avon

OCLC
  
37024133

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

Pages
  
224 pp (first edition hardcover)

ISBN
  
0-380-97584-X (first edition hardcover)

Similar
  
Pearl Cleage books, Novels

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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is a novel by Pearl Cleage, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1998. The book focuses on a black woman who has moved back to her Michigan hometown following a positive diagnosis for HIV. Although this was not Cleage's first novel it can be attributed as the novel that made her famous for all of the recognition it received by countless newspapers and television shows.

Contents

Characters

  • Ava Johnson: the protagonist. She moved back to live with her sister in Idlewild, Michigan after she was diagnosed with HIV. She was a successful hairdresser in Atlanta, Georgia before her patrons learned she had HIV.
  • Joyce Mitchell: Ava's older sister. She was married to Mitch before he died in a freak accident. She runs The Sewing Circus, a church group focused on providing sexual education to and empowering young mothers.
  • Mitch Mitchell: Joyce's husband before he died in a freak accident.
  • Eddie Jefferson: Mitch and Joyce's best friend, who later becomes romantically involved with Ava.
  • Imani: a crack baby Joyce and Ava take custody of.

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