Bernice L. McFadden

This romantic and realistic fiction, in three parts: Campbell (her), Donovan (him), and Them (together), is filled with the anguish of two lovers from broken childhoods that included sexual abuse, grandmotherly domination, and pregnancy at fifteen. Campbell takes her pain and creates collages, but Donovan is stymied and stuck. When they meet, there's hope in their joining. The writing is tense and filled with almost disbelief at the ability for these two broken people to try to make each other compensation for all the wrongs.… (mer)