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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove

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Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn’t stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them servants because they are Black. When Bezellia has a clandestine romance with Nathaniel's son, Whites and Blacks unite in fury at the young couple.

In a world too neatly ordered by status, wealth, and skin color, Bezellia becomes a rebel who, while seeking the love her real family has not been able to provide, unearths and upends some secrets and assumptions that a lot of people would rather stay hidden.

©2010 Susan Gregg Gilmore (P)2010 Tantor Family Life Coming of Age Southern United States Genre Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature

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I love light southern fiction and that is what this book delivers. The narrator and story all worked for me.

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With true southern charm this story grabbed my heart and didn’t let go. Well worth the credit.

WOW! A wonderful story.

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This book was really really good with a nice and complete ending. I loved the music in the story .The performer read the story exceptionally well and is a great singer. I hope to hear her reading other stories. I would call this book Bezelia Grove Yearning for More.

Wouldn’t call her life improper

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