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This Day's Madness
This Day's Madness
This Day's Madness
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This Days Madness justifiably earns its title of madness, because there is no other way to describe or rationalize what happens to Frankie, an eight year old orphan black girl entrusted to the care of Tom, a white man and the owner of Doub Circus in which Frankie performs as the WORLDS YOUNGEST TRAPEZIST.
This Days Madness is a quasi-tragedy in which the gods and poetic justice are absent.
For, Frankies unrelenting tragic suffering is created by an evil-meaning group of people, who kidnap her, only to set her up for ruin.
The story lures the reader in with the jovial mood created by the circus. But then, Frankie is torn from her circus family and they are chased out of town. Frankie is sent to an orphanage, where she is stripped of her circus name and becomes Thomasena. Her life becomes a nerve-wrecking and pathetic saga of erased identity, smothered truth, stolen innocence and crushed ambition.
Her final hopes for rescue are dashed when Tom Doub dies. Frankie is forced to adjust to life in a hostile environment where she is treated like a parolee from jail. Despite her brilliant performance in school and upright behavior in the community, fate and events conspire to bring her down in shame. Frankie is raped and impregnated by a rich white college student who would have nothing to do with her when she goes looking for him in New York.. where she starts a new life.
Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru, Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateNov 19, 2010
ISBN9781450262439
This Day's Madness
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Sandra E. Bowen

A retired college professor, Sandra E Bowen began college teaching at A & T University, Greensboro, NC, where she received a B.S. degree in English, and also directed drama. She received graduate degrees from NY Uni. and studied drama in Lieden, The Netherlands. She also attended The Uni. PA, Yeshiva Uni., and Columbia Uni. and taught African American Lit at Hunter College, NYC and Uni. of AZ, Tempe. THE CUL-LUD SCH-OOOL TEACH-UR is the second in a trilogy, THIS DAY’S MADNESS the first. After extensive travel that included Mainland China and Tibet, she lives in Phoenix, AZ with a collection of animals: horses, dogs, cats, pot belly pigs and a variety of feathered friends. She is writing the third book, IN SEARCH OF MAMMY.

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