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Selected List of Reviews of Marita Golden's Books:

 

A Miracle Everyday

  • Publishers Weekly February 22, 1999
  • Kirkus Reviews February 1, 1999
  • Emerge Magazine—Listed on Emerge's Recommended Reading list

 


The Edge of Heaven

  • "One Family's Secrets and Sorrows," The Washington Post December 21, 1997
  • San Francisco Chronicle cited in Editor's Recommended column January 25, 1998
  • "Violent Death Shatters a Family That Struggles to Forgive," San Francisco Chronicle January 18, 1998
  • Time Out New York December 24-January 8, 1998
  • The Baltimore Sun December 14, 1997
  • Emerge Magazine December/January 1998—Listed in Emerge's Recommended Reading column
  • "Fracture Exposes a Family's Imperfections," Detroit Free Press February 8, 1998
  • Library Journal November 1, 1997
  • Booklist January 15, 1997
  • Kirkus Reviews November 1, 1997
  • New York Times Book Review April 5, 1998

 


Skin Deep: Black and White Women Write About Race

  • "Authors As Diverse As Collection of 20 Stories," Minneapolis, Minnesota Star Tribune
    September 3, 1995
  • Essence October 1995
  • "Written in Black and White," Indianapolis Star October 15, 1995
  • Upscale December/January 1996
  • "Both Sides Now," Washington Post July 16, 1995
  • "Women on Race," St. Louis Post Dispatch July 16, 1995
  • "From One Woman to Another in Black and White," Emerge Magazine 1995

 


Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World

  • USA Today March 9, 1995
  • " Black Boys' Dangerous Journey," Tampa Florida Tribune and Times February 26, 1995
  • Houston Post March 19, 1995
  • "Rearing the Children Most at Risk," The Washington Post January 15, 1995
  • "Novelist Returns to Nonfiction to Tell Some Grueling Truths," Philadelphia Tribune February 2, 1995
  • "Golden Child," Detroit News January 10, 1995
  • "A Mother's Journey Along a Son's Road to Adulthood," Black Issues Book Review June 26, 1997
  • Entertainment Weekly January 27, 1995
  • "Nurture the Children," Quarterly Black Review April 1995

 


A Woman's Place

  • "Striving and Surviving: Marita Golden's Moving Story of Three Black Women," Washington Post
    July 30, 1986

 


And Do Remember Me

  • "Two Women Forge a Friendship Shaped by the Civil-Rights Era," Philadelphia Inquirer June 7, 1992
  • "Golden Finds Her Voice in 'Remember Me'," Boston Globe July 27, 1992

 


Long Distance Life

  • "Generations of Hope and Sorrow," Washington Post September 17, 1989
  • "In The Other Washington," Newsweek February 20, 1989
  • "Being Black in the Shadow of the White House," The Detroit News January 21, 1989
  • "Middle-Class Blacks—4 Generations," Cleveland Plan Dealer December 24, 1989
  • "A Black Family's Odyssey in a Vibrant Life," USA TODAY
  • "One of the Best Novels of 1989," The Critic's Pick by Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post 1990

 

 
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