Diane McKinney-Whetstone

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
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“Warm and intimate. . . . An accomplished novel, with sharply drawn characters, exuberant prose, plenty of period detail and a wise, forgiving outlook on family life.” --  Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTumbling is the beloved bestsellin...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival.Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents...

• Nov-1999
• / Romance
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"McKinney-Whetstone uses her gift for language to weave a love story that spans more than twenty years and three lives. . . . Blues Dancing is a novel well worth curling up with a long winter’s night."  -- EssenceFrom acclaimed write...

• Mar-2004
• / General Fiction
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A riveting tale about a back-room abortion that has devastating consequences for two teenage girls on a close knit Philadelphia block circa 1972Block parties were king in this West Philadelphia neighborhood, especially the year Cecil Street decided t...

• Jul-2008
• / General Fiction
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From the author of Blues Dancing and Tumbling -- a writer who “ought to be classified among the best of all contemporary fiction writers period” (Detroit Free Press) -- comes a riveting novel about the desire for redemption and rebirthMoving acro...

• Apr-2016
• / General Fiction
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This stunning new novel from Diane McKinney-Whetstone, nationally bestselling author of Tumbling, begins in the chaotic backstreets of post-Civil War Philadelphia as a young black woman gives birth to a child fathered by her wealthy white employer. ...

• Jul-2022
• / Women's Fiction
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Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. The Gen -- short for Sexagenarian -- is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the...