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Karen Hunter, September 2009
Hardcover, 400 pages
ISBN-10: 1439158908
ISBN-13: 9781439158906
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One of E. Lynn Harris's incomparable heroines, Yancey Harrington Braxton, is working her way back to Broadway and beyond. And this diva supreme always stirs up drama in and out of the spotlight....
New York City, you've been warned: Yancey Harrington Braxton is back. The ambitious singer and actress is fired up to move past her recent professional and personal setbacks -- including an explosive romance with NFL tight end John Basil Henderson -- and prove her talents are stronger than ever. After being out on tour, Yancey realizes what she really wants is to star in her own reality TV series, and she's even found a rich and well-connected lover to make it happen. There are, however, two women fierce enough to derail Yancey's plans with ambitions of their own: Madison B., a hot new bombshell taking the music industry by storm, and Ava Middlebrooks, who happens to be Yancey's own mama dearest.
Ava is out, about, and ready to reclaim her throne. Not even a stint in prison for attempted murder has curbed Ava's competitive nature, and it doesn't faze her in the least that her #1 rival is her own daughter. Ava is willing to do whatever it takes to make Yancey pay, including using Madison B. to turn Yancey's world upside-down by forcing her to confront the past...and making her comeback dreams more exciting and dangerous than she ever imagined.
Taking readers on a wild, passion-filled tour of the entertainment world, E. Lynn Harris's Mama Dearest delivers sensual thrills and electric plot twists -- with one unforgettable woman of radiant star power, sexual magnetism, and unapologetic ambition at the heart of the action.
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New Pittsburgh Courier, January 8, 2010
...her mother. The apple, they say, doesn’t fall far from the tree, and in the new novel “Mama Dearest” by E. Lynn Harris, it sticks around through three generations. Yancey Harrington Braxton knew what it was like to hit it big, and ...
New Journal Guide, January 7, 2010
...her mother. The apple, they say, doesn’t fall far from the tree, and in the new novel “Mama Dearest” by E. Lynn Harris, it sticks around through three generations. Yancey Harrington Braxton knew what it was like to hit it big, and ...
Gainesville Sun, December 31, 2009
...her mother. The apple, they say, doesn't fall far from the tree, and in the new novel, "Mama Dearest," by E. Lynn Harris, it sticks around through three generations. Yancey Harrington Braxton knew what it was like to hit it big, and being in ...
Philly.com, November 1, 2009
...Mama DearestBy E. Lynn Harris Pocket Books/Karen Hunter Publishing. 389 pp. $25.99 Reviewed by Karen E. Quinones Miller If ever there were a woman devoid of maternal love, it's Ava Middlebrooks ...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 25, 2009
... In an effort to honor the late bestselling author E. Lynn Harris, who died of a heart attack in L.A. in July, a group of friends and colleaguesEric Jerome Dickey, Tananarive Due and Terry McMillan among themare rallying to ...
Detroit News, September 23, 2009
...E. Lynn Harris was a prolific novelist who touched people's lives by creating a riveting new fiction genre about men "on the downlow" -- books that tell tales of men ...
