Date Reviewed: Apr 30, 2009
No one can love you like family and no one can hurt you like family. I found this to ring true while reading GOING DOWN SOUTH. Olivia Jean has an unstable relationship with her mother, Daisy, which is exasperated by her close relationship with her father, Turk, a man her mother is struggling to hold onto. Daisy is jealous of the time and attention he gives Olivia Jean and doesn't have for her. When Olivia Jean tells her parents she is pregnant at fifteen, for fear of what the neighbors will think, the only option is to send her to stay with her grandmother. Daisy’s relationship with her mother, Birdie is also fragile, so she is surprised when Birdie agrees to take Olivia Jean in on the condition Daisy stay as well.
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They navigated the familiar paths traveled on the Highest of 7 Hills. This day they returned as a couple the way they left a few years ago; Bonnie Glover the acclaimed writer and Craig Glover the business leader. The Glovers (Bonnie and Craig) returned to campus as honored guest speakers of the FAMU SBI Superstar Forum. Thank You Our sincere thanks to our FAMU family for the very gracious and warm welcome my husband and I received at the School of Business and Industry on March 24. We made new friends of the outstanding faculty and the absolutely impressive students. We are looking forward to visiting again soon! Read NottHeads - "Moss on the trees" for more coverage of the Glovers visit to FAMU.
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'Chauncey's Book Club' to begin with author Bonnie J. Glover By Chauncey Mabe |Books Editor, Sun Sentinel
- February 1, 2009
Bonnie J. Glover's second novel, Going Down South, is a family drama about a pregnant black 15-year-old New Yorker who is dragged to Alabama to live with her grandmother in the 1960s. That plot, plus the book's rave reviews, makes it the perfect first selection for the Sun Sentinel's new online book club.
Meanwhile, Glover, a lawyer who lives in Davie, will be in Los Angeles on Feb. 12 for the NAACP Image Awards. Going Down South is a finalist for Outstanding Literary Work — Fiction.
When the nominations were announced Jan. 8, Glover says, she was "upended" for a while.
"I've read Tananarive Due and E. Lynn Harris and James McBride," she says. "I'm in the same category with who? When I saw my name I immediately began to cry. But the kids have to eat. So I dried my eyes and fixed dinner." Read More: Chauncey's Book Club Visit South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com at http://www.sun-sentinel.com 
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