The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner

If you want to see genuine sisterhood in action(with some playa hating on the side), then this is the book for you. You have this lady who wants babies, and her husband doesn't. He finds an abandoned baby which just hurts her to the core. In a community meeting to deal with the problem, she makes a......more

Bonnie And Thora I approached Andrea Smith's "The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner" (2007) thinking it would be a sentimental novel not to my liking, but I found the book endearing. The story is set in a predominantly African American three-county community in South Carolina called the Three Sisters a......more

This was such a good book! An emotional rollercoaster. Disgust, anger, pride, and joy. Loved the way the author wrote the characters, each one was their own person. Appreciated the epilogue and how the story was tied up in the end. Thora was my favorite as well as Ruby-Pearl and Bonnie. Tilde was a......more

'The Sisterhood Of Blackberry Corner' is set in South Carolina, America's Deep South, and is written with Southern dialogue and idioms. The story is about the African-American community of Canaan Creek in the 1950s. Bonnie Wilder tells her story, sitting on her porch in 1985, and looking back at th......more