Third Girl From The Left: A Bold and Dazzling Novel of Mothers, Daughters, and the Inextricable Pull of the Movies

Third Girl From The Left: A Bold and Dazzling Novel of Mothers, Daughters, and the Inextricable Pull of the Movies

<DIV>At the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twenty-year-old beauty who leaves the stifling conformity of Oklahoma to search for fame during the rise of blaxploitation cinema in Los Angeles. But for her mother, Mildred, a strait-laced survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Angela's acting career is unforgivable, and the distance between them grows into a silence that lasts for years. It is only when Angela's daughter, Tamara, a filmmaker, sets out to close the rift between them that the women are forced to confront all that has been left unspoken in their lives.<br><br>Bold and beautifully written, Third Girl from the Left deftly explores the bonds of family and the inextricable pull of the movies.</div>