Pretty Fire

Name: Pretty Fire
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Charlayne Woodard
ISBN: 9781580814980

Author: Charlayne Woodard

Narrator: Charlayne Woodard

Unabridged: 1 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 01/24/2001

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph. This NAACP award-winning play is a one-woman tour de force. Chosen as a “Recommended Young Adult Audiobook” by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Pretty Fire is the first play of a trilogy that continued with Neat and ended with In Real Life.

An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Charlayne Woodard.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Celeste on June 06, 2021

It was entertaining. It felt as if it was IV with a line that goes straight to the heart.......more

Goodreads review by Shazia on July 19, 2015

This was an astonishingly good book. It is a set of vignettes about a young black woman growing up in New York. Each story both captures the very individual experiences of the author, and the way in which her story reflects the stories of others. Easiest to say that it rang true. It was completely c......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany on December 18, 2015

what a wonderful autobiography. rich with emotion, colorful and deep. I truly enjoyed this listen.......more

Goodreads review by Erika on May 23, 2016

Another series of monologues by Charlayne Woodard. Here she talks about her African-American family, her premature birth, life in New York, and Ku Klux Klan. Breathtaking and heartfelt stories!......more