In October 2001, Baby of the Family was chosen by the Georgia Center for the Book as one of the Top 25 Books Every Georgian Should Read.
Baby of the Family was also on the African-American Bestseller List for Paperback Fiction. Ansa's first novel, Baby of the Family, was published in 1989 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. The novel addresses the contemporary issues of children today, the tenuous ties we are building with them, and how we can reclaim them. Tina McElroy Ansa's fourth novel, You Know Better, will be published in Spring 2002 by William Morrow Publishers. Since 1982, she has been a freelance journalist, newspaper columnist and writing workshop instructor at Brunswick College, Emory University and Spelman College. She also worked as editor and copy editor for The Charlotte (NC) Observer.
During her eight years at The Atlanta Constitution, she worked as copy editor, makeup editor, layout editor, entertainment writer, features editor, and news reporter. Her first job after college was on the copy desk of The Atlanta Constitution, where she was the first black woman to work on the morning newspaper. In 1971, she graduated from Spelman College, the historically black women's college which is part of the Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, GA. Tina McElroy Ansa was born in Macon, GA, the youngest of five children. Novelist Tina McElroy Ansa calls herself "part of a writing tradition, one of those little Southern girls who always knew she wanted to be a writer." She grew up in Middle Georgia in the 1950s hearing her grandfather's stories on the porch of her family home and strangers' stories downtown in her father's juke joint, which have inspired Mulberry, Georgia, the mythical world of her four novels. You Know Better brilliantly portrays the fissures in modern African American family life to reveal the indestructible soul that bonds us all. Over the course of one weekend, these three disparate women, guided by the wisdom of three unexpected spirits, will learn to face the pain of their lives and discover that with reconciliation comes the healing they all desperately seek. A ghost of a well-known Mulberry pioneer is coming out of the shadows. It's LaShawndra’s grandmother Lily Paine Pines who is out scouring the streets at midnight looking for her granddaughter. Not that her mother seems to care: Sandra is too busy working on her career and romancing a local minister to notice. As the tiny town of Mulberry, Georgia, celebrates its spring Peach Blossom Festival, things are far from peachy for three generations of Pines women.Įighteen-year-old LaShawndra, who wants nothing more out of life than to dance in a music video, has messed up again - but this time she isn't sticking around to hear about it.
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