I know this will sound wierd but I am a boy and I have read this and since you don't remember what it is about I copied down a summary.
Janie's first memory is of "drowning" as a little girl while spending time with her birth mother Linda. Soon after, four-year-old Janie is placed in a foster home where she meets seven-year-old Harmon Finch. Despite their racial and age differences (their foster mother refers to the two of them as Vanilla and Chocolate), they form the strongest bond that Janie has ever known. She has no family to speak of and immediately sees Harmon as the brother she never had, her second soul. Harmon introduces Janie to his shoe box full of the "ladies" (45s of Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Roberta Flack), and Janie feels like she has come home: she loves listening to them and discovers how much she loves to sing. When she sings, she feels complete, whole.
Over the next couple of years, Janie suffers some big losses: Harmon is adopted by a family, her foster caseworker Doris stops working, and she is kidnapped by Linda! During all of this, Janie longs to be someone else, someone new, someone black. So she adopts the name Leshaya as her own.
Despite being moved around to different foster families, having an unplanned pregnancy, and feeling cheated by what life has given her, Leshaya holds tightly to her dream of one day singing like the "ladies." After traveling around the South and singing with many different bands, she eventually joins a band that gets radio play for one of their songs. But that doesn't mean life gets any easier for Leshaya. There are more twists and turns to the story of her struggle to find a better life, but she never gives up.
Eh about me huh? Well I suppose some would say theres a lot to say. On the other I would say I am just a girl. A girl whose got two eyes and a nose and has been inhaling and exhaling for awhile now. I love people who making me laugh and do goofy voices. I love being silly with my friends and partying til early. And shoes are some of my favorite things. Oddly enough I love reading hence the blog. =p
xoxo.
Born Blue
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I know this will sound wierd but I am a boy and I have read this and since you don't remember what it is about I copied down a summary.
Janie's first memory is of "drowning" as a little girl while spending time with her birth mother Linda. Soon after, four-year-old Janie is placed in a foster home where she meets seven-year-old Harmon Finch. Despite their racial and age differences (their foster mother refers to the two of them as Vanilla and Chocolate), they form the strongest bond that Janie has ever known. She has no family to speak of and immediately sees Harmon as the brother she never had, her second soul. Harmon introduces Janie to his shoe box full of the "ladies" (45s of Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Roberta Flack), and Janie feels like she has come home: she loves listening to them and discovers how much she loves to sing. When she sings, she feels complete, whole.
Over the next couple of years, Janie suffers some big losses: Harmon is adopted by a family, her foster caseworker Doris stops working, and she is kidnapped by Linda! During all of this, Janie longs to be someone else, someone new, someone black. So she adopts the name Leshaya as her own.
Despite being moved around to different foster families, having an unplanned pregnancy, and feeling cheated by what life has given her, Leshaya holds tightly to her dream of one day singing like the "ladies." After traveling around the South and singing with many different bands, she eventually joins a band that gets radio play for one of their songs. But that doesn't mean life gets any easier for Leshaya. There are more twists and turns to the story of her struggle to find a better life, but she never gives up.
Oh and don't get freaked out that I found your blog because I am "Kittycatobf's" brother.
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