On-Sale:January 27, 2003
Price: $23.95
Dutton

Early Praise for LOVING DONOVAN by Bernice L. McFadden:

“LOVING DONOVAN is an unconventional story that will have the reader believing in the power of love. It is a delightful coming of age tale, as two young people have to come to terms with what life has taught them... an entertaining read, with just enough twists to keep you turning the pages. And, everyone will enjoy the surprise ending.”
--QBR

“Bernice McFadden’s writing is dark and delicious. Her characters are so richly and distinctly drawn that their pain is palpable. And there’s no shortage of pain. Or hope, thank goodness. Fans will exult in LOVING DONOVAN. It follows in the tradition of literary fiction McFadden exquisitely crafted in Sugar, The Warmest December and This Bitter Earth, and firmly establishes her among the ranks of those few writers of whom you constantly beg for more.”
--Black Issue Book Review

LOVING DONOVAN
A Novel in Three Stories
By Bernice L. McFadden

A Main Selection of the Doubleday Black Expressions Book Club

In LOVING DONOVAN: A Novel in Three Stories (Dutton, On-Sale: January 27, 2003, $23.95), Bernice L. McFadden, bestselling author of three award-winning novels, shares what may well be the longest love letter she’s ever written. A powerful novel of love, destiny, and the role fate plays in our lives, LOVING DONOVAN unfurls in three parts: Her, Him, and Them.

LOVING DONOVAN traces the lives of two damaged but resolute people destined for an ill-fated love affair. The first section of this unconventional love story belongs to Campbell. Despite being born to a brokenhearted mother and a faithless father, Campbell still believes in the power of love…if she can ever find it. Living in the same neighborhood, but unknown to Campbell until a chance meeting brings them together, is Donovan, the “little man” of a shattered home—a family torn apart by anger and bitterness. In the face of these daunting obstacles, Donovan dreams of someday marrying, raising a family, and playing for the NBA, but something in his past keeps holding him back from his dreams until he meets Campbell. Deep inside, Campbell and Donovan live with the histories that have shaped their lives. What they discover—together and apart—forms the basis of this compelling, sensual, and surprising novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernice L. McFadden is the # 1 Essence and BlackBoard Times bestselling author of Sugar, The Warmest December, and This Bitter Earth (all available from Plume Books). She lives with her daughter in Brooklyn, where she is at work on her fifth novel.

ABOUT THE ART
The jacket art for LOVING DONOVAN is an original design by L. Gregory Christie, a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

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