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Original Title:	I Wish I Had a Red Dress
ISBN:	0380804883 (ISBN13: 9780380804887)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Idlewild #2

I Wish I Had a Red Dress (Idlewild #2)

Pearl Cleage

Kindle Edition | Pages: 323 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 3108 Users | 136 Reviews

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Title	:	I Wish I Had a Red Dress (Idlewild #2)
Author	:	Pearl Cleage
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 323 pages
Published	:	July 9th 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published July 1st 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary

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Cleage captures the mores, culture, and rhythm of black urban youth and the romantic tensions between mature black adults as she weaves contemporary issues into a love story.

Joyce Mitchell was widowed far too young when her beloved husband, Mitch, died in a tragic accident five years ago. Since then she's kept her hands full and her mind and heart occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services like day care and job counseling to young women, many of whom are single mothers. More important, The Circus is a place for lively, wide-ranging, heart-to-heart discussions that will help members grow into what Joyce likes to call "twenty-first-century free women."

All in all, Joyce has a full and rich life. She has her work, her family, her friends, and her town. But there are some nights when she crawls into bed alone and has to admit that something is missing. What she doesn't have is that red dress she keeps dreaming about or a social life that would accommodate it even if she braved the mall and bought one. To further complicate matters, she may not have The Sewing Circus much longer, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group's vital but hard to define work with young women who are too often regarded as problems rather than possibilities.

Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to keep a date for dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister -- a reverend like no other-and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. Nate has just joined the administration at the high school and his unexpected presence in Idlewild touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play. Nate feels the same immediate connection, but both have enough experience with broken hearts to take it real slow. Besides, they've got too much work to do to concentrate on falling in love....

But life moves at its own pace, and as Sister says, "if you want to make God laugh, make plans." Particularly when it comes to matters of the heart. Joyce decides the trick is to stay focused and to remember that nothing is as sexy as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, especially if you tell it while you're wearing a perfect red dress...

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Ratings: 4.1 From 3108 Users | 136 Reviews

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This was one of those books that raises important issues and then can't deliver on giving a nuanced and realistic storyline or outcome. A youngish widow lives in an all black Michigan resort town. In the old days before segregation this was a thriving middle class community. Now all the teenage girls have babies and meet at a place called the Circus run by aforementioned widow. She meets a long cool drink of water, but battles with him so about her freedom and women's rights it is hard to see

This was such an amazing written book by a brilliant author. Just perfectly thought out with spectacular storyline and realism from the beginning to the end of the book. I just love each character and could not stop reading because the more I read the more embossed into the book I became. The author did such an amazing job I cant wait to explore more of her works in the future.

Like the first book in this series, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, I had trouble getting into the story initially. Then it really picked up and I very much enjoyed the second half or so. I liked What Looks Like Crazy better than this one, but both are great stories about powerful, strong Black women.

Liked it, but wish I had known to read the previous book in this series which was "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day." I don't like reading books out of order!

This is a sequel to What Looks Like Crazy on An Ordinary Day. I loved Crazy and enjoyed Red Dress. I am enjoying Pearl Cleage as an author - she reminds me a lot of Terri McMillan. Red Dress is the story of Joyce - a young widow in a Michigan town. She is a social worker and starts "The Circus" - a support group for young black women - teaching them to be "free" women. Enjoyable read.

I Wish I Had a Red Dress was quite predictable. I felt like there was some teaching about how Black women and men ought to act. The main character was strong, but I didn't necessarily want to be like her. Joyce Mitchell is a social worker helping young women. She is pushing them to be who they want to be and this titular red dress is meant to symbolize freedom. This sequel was not as good as What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day.

O.K., so one day I'll return this book to my good friend Val. Although, I enjoyed it because I was familiar with the characters, it wasn't as well written as the What looks like crazy on an ordinary day!