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With wit and grace, Campbell shows how all our stories--white, black, male female--ultimately intertwine.-- Time Set against the smoldering embers of post-riot Los Angeles, Brothers and Sisters confirms Bebe Moore Campbells reputation for fiction that cuts close to the bone of real life ( Atlanta Journal ). Esther Jackson is a bank manager whos worked hard to keep her passions in check. Sensitive to injustice, but struggling against hostility and mistrust, she forms a tentative friendship with Mallory Post, a white coworker who seems sometimes to live in a different--and unreachable--world. But when an attractive black man is hired as a senior vice president at the bank, with troubling and unexpected consequences for both of these women, Esther is forced to question her deepest loyalties and desire--and what really makes us brothers and sisters. About the Author Bebe Moore Campbell was a bestselling author and a journalist. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Los Angeles Times , Ms. , Essence , Black Enterprise , Ebony , Working Mother , USA Weekend , and Adweek , among other publications. She was a regular contributor to National Public Radio. She was the author of such national, critically acclaimed bestsellers as Brothers and Sisters , Singing in the Comeback Choir , Your Blues Aint Like Mine , Stompin at the Savoy , and What You Owe Me , as well as the award-winning childrens book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry . Campbell was born and grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education. She taught elementary and middle school for five years. She is survived by her daughter, the actress Maia Campbell, and a son, Ellis Gordon III.
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