About the book:
Home by Adrienne Thompson
Genre:
African American Fiction/Edgy Inspirational Fiction
Release
Date: 3/2/15
Now
available for pre-order:
Blurb:
For the
ladies’ man Ivan Spencer, there really is no place like HOME.
A family
emergency brings former rapper and current real estate mogul, Ivan Spencer,
back to his long-abandoned hometown. While there, he must deal with his
confused mother, his elderly, philandering father, his flaky sister, an
unreliable aunt, and a face from the past who makes him question some of his
earlier decisions. All he wants to do is to get things squared away and return
to his life, but as it turns out, he must deal with his own issues first.
Tagline: “There really is no place like HOME.”
Excerpt:
I had just sat down to drink my coffee when Daddy
walked into the kitchen wearing a dingy white t-shirt and faded, striped
boxers. One look at my daddy and anyone could see why he was so popular with
the women. Even at seventy-something, he still had the same smooth, ruddy skin,
gray eyes, wavy black hair, and bone structure that made most women swoon. The
story had always been that my daddy’s daddy’s daddy was a full-blooded Quapaw
Indian. My grandfather could never confirm this fact, because he never knew his
father. But looking at my daddy and the features I’d inherited from him, I
believed the story was pretty close to the truth.
Daddy sat down at the table with a grunt and a
sigh.
“Where you been, Daddy?” I asked.
He looked at me for a second. “Here and
there.”
“Mama’s sick. She’s in the hospital.”
“Yeah, I figured something like that was going
on when I saw her bed empty. Plus, you here. You don’t come around no more
lessin’ it’s something going on.”
I nodded.
I sat there and looked at him and waited for
him to show an ounce of concern for the woman who’d borne him two children and
been his wife for the past forty-some-odd years. I waited for him to ask about
her or something. But he just sat
there, grinding his teeth and scratching his head. “Any more hot water? I think
I’ma make me some coffee,” he finally said.
He didn’t wait for me to answer. He stood from
his chair with another grunt and checked the pot for himself. Then he pulled a
coffee mug from the cabinet and started noisily making himself a cup of coffee,
huffing and puffing and grunting the whole time. I cleared my throat and took a
deep breath. My face was heating up, but I was determined to keep my composure.
Daddy wasn’t going to make me lose my cool. Not this time.
“She got a hold of a bottle of laxatives and took
all of them,” I said.
“Umph,” he grunted. “She always gettin’ into
something.”
I took another deep breath. “Yeah, um, the
doctor’s talking about sending her home this afternoon.”
“Umph.”
He sat back down across from me and loudly
slurped his coffee. So we sat there in silence except for his slurps.
Slurp…
Slurp…
Slurp…
Finally, I stood from the table. “I’ma go take
a shower so I can head on up to the hospital to check on Mama. You wanna ride
with me?”
Slurp. “Naw, you
go ‘head on. I’ll see her when she come home.” Slurp…
I sighed. “All right, then, Daddy.”
About the Author:
Adrienne Thompson has worn many titles in her
lifetime–from teenage mother to teenage wife to divorcee to registered nurse to
author. This mother of two young adults and one teenager currently resides in
Arkansas with her daughter where she writes and publishes her stories full
time.
You can connect with her at:
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