Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

A Novel

By Bebe Moore Campbell | Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

About the book

\"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING.\"
--San Francisco Chronicle
\"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis.\"
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
\"REMARKABLE...POWERFUL.\"
--Time
\"YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings.\"
--The Indianapolis News
\"EXTRAORDINDARY.\"
--The Seattle Times
\"A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story.\"
--Entertainment Weekly
YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction

Editions of Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

Paperback
ISBN 9780345383952
Paperback
ISBN 9780345401120

Read an Excerpt

\"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING.\"
--San Francisco Chronicle
\"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis.\"
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
\"REMARKABLE...POWERFUL.\"
--Time
\"YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings.\"
--The Indianapolis News
\"EXTRAORDINDARY.\"
--The Seattle Times
\"A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story.\"
--Entertainment Weekly
YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Your Blues Ain't Like Mine about?

\"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING.\"
--San Francisco Chronicle
\"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis.\"
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
\"REMARKABLE...POWERFUL.\"
--Time
\"YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings.\"
--The Indianapolis News
\"EXTRAORDINDARY.\"
--The Seattle Times
\"A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story.\"
--Entertainment Weekly
YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Your Blues Ain't Like Mine?

Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre

Where can I read a sample of Your Blues Ain't Like Mine?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780345383952

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Your Blues Ain't Like Mine?

Bebe Moore Campbell

Who is the Publisher of the book Your Blues Ain't Like Mine?

Random House Publishing Group

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine is available as paperback(ISBN 9780345383952) and paperback(ISBN 9780345401120)

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