Join Girlfriends EnTourAge us for a disussion of Pearl Cleage’s Seen It All and Done the Rest in our Virtual Conference Room. Attending is easy – you just need a phone.
About Seen It All and Done the Rest
After thirty years in Europe building her reputation as one of her generation’s finest actresses and redefining her role as an African-American diva, Josephine Evans is forced to return to the U.S., where she is forced to build a new life, and gets her chance when she takes on an unscrupulous land developer threatening to destroy her Atlanta community.Review by Publisher’s Weekly
This jaunty but topical coming-of-middle-age story from Cleage (Baby Brother’s Blues) opens with an indignant argument about American culpability in the Iraq war, as African-American actress Josephine Evans—a self-proclaimed Las Vegas of grandmothers living and working in Amsterdam—has just been fired from a theater production, ostensibly for being too American. She returns to Atlanta to spend time with her granddaughter Zora, recently undone by her peripheral role in a splashy murder case, and to check on her family house.
Josephine is hoping to keep Zora’s trust while steering her away from Zora’s father’s tragic bout with alcohol. After seeing the cracked-out wreckage of her stretch of Atlanta’s West End, Josephine also embarks on a plan with four other women to fix up her vandalized manse, a plan that includes the squatter she discovers there, Victor Causey.
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