Something Real
 

Something Real

by J.J. Murray

Thanks to her black mother and her Irish father, Ruth "Penny" Borum is the color of a new penny. Big-boned and notoriously sassy, Ruth is nonetheless the organist and a member in good standing of Antioch, Virginia's most prominent black church--or at least she was until she dragged the popular Reverend Jonas Borum into an ugly divorce.
Having lost everything in the divorce, Ruth scrapes... (read more)

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Gail Dayton
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This was originally published in hardcover, then in trade paperback, and came out in October in mass-market, when I finally found it. This is Murray’s second novel. I read an excerpt in the back of his first ages ago, and somehow never managed to get my hands on it. So, the heroine has a gift for music, for playing the organ at church. The book begins after she gets divorced, then goes back and tells the story of her marriage—never a beauty, she married the church minister because he was the...

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