What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
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Average rating3.7
E-book extra: Reading group guide.That one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is happening to Ava Johnson in sleepy Idlewild after a decade of luxe living in Atlanta: she is falling in love. The classic bestseller and Oprah fave is now available in a delightful new e-book edition.After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living among the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and the biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines is the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love.
Series
3 primary booksIdlewild is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Pearl Cleage and Nick Sagan.
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it's certainly a late 90's Oprah Book Club pick, and I have nothing more to say!
A sweet book about an HIV-positive woman learning to love herself and help others in a small town. Felt a little formulaic and predictable, and some of the more minor characters felt like two-dimensional tropes. However, I liked the conversation about the stigma against HIV, the profound effect of abstinence-only sex ed and of drugs on small communities.
