Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story (Today Show Book Club #4) Summary and Reviews

Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story (Today Show Book Club #4)
by Michael Datcher

Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story (Today Show Book Club #4)
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Author: Michael Datcher
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN: 1573223301
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Riverhead Trade

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Book Review: "To Be Young, Gifted, Black and Fatherless"
Summary: 4 Stars

This autobiography read like a novel. Mr. Datcher tells his story of growing up in an adoptive home after being given up by his teenaged mother as a toddler. The author relays the story of his childhood in the 70's, alternately selling Kool-Aid at a stand to robbing houses with his group of friends called the "Money Gang". This book was so honest that I did not like the author, or choices that he made at certain times during the book. He does not sugar coat anything about his life. He discusses having unprotected sex with a girlfriend that he didn't love and then getting mad at her when she became pregnant. He enrolls in UCLA and completes a master's degree, while working as a writer and spoken word poet. Though it is more a story of survival, because of his childhood, the author overcomes every obstacle. It does turn into a love story more than halfway through when the author meets his future wife, novelist Jenoyne Adams.

Reviewed by Sandra Pettiford

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