Neecey’s Lullaby

Release date: March 14, 2006

Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s, Neecey once felt that her world was perfect. She was loved and protected by her father, Jesse, and lived in relative comfort with her mother, Ruby, her grandmother, Ma ’Dear, and her siblings. But when Ruby and Jesse’s marriage falls apart due to Jesse’s cheating ways and Ruby’s hot temper, the children are eventually abandoned by their father and end up living in poverty in a housing project.

Ruby plunges into depression and anger, yelling at and hitting her children without warning. Ruby brings shiftless suitors into her home and gives them her body and her time, leaving Neecey to learn on her own how to cook and care for her five younger siblings, some mere babies. Yet despite the trauma, Neecey’s love for her sisters and brother, and ultimately herself, helps her find the inner strength to succeed.

 

“Rendered with intense depth of feeling, Neecey’s Lullaby evokes Morrison’s The Bluest Eye with its haunting prose, rich characters, and timely message of hope and redemption. A beautiful novel that reminds us how love survives in the human heart despite years of physical and emotional pain.

– Heather Neff, author of Haarlem.

“Facillimum id quidem est, inquam. Primum Theophrasti, Strato, physicum se voluit; Sed fortuna fortis; Honesta oratio, Socratica, Platonis etiam. Certe non potest. Vestri haec verecundius, illi fortasse constantius.”

– Some author name.

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Certe non potest sed haec in pueris. Verum hoc idem saepe faciamus.

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Sed virtutem ipsam inchoavit, nihil amplius. Quonam modo?

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