The Antioch Review, September 22nd, 2000
Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 402 pp., $24.00. Brown, the distinguished author of Tender Mercies and Civil Wars, returns in this new novel to her two most enduring thematic preoccupations: family relationships and the racial divide in America. The novel is composed of two major sections. The first surrounds the search by former civil rights activist Miriam Viner, now an affluent Houston wife and mother of two, to find the daughter she conceived 18 years ago with Eljay, a politically militant black college professor in Mississippi, and reluctantly gave up. The second...
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