title: Baby Brother's Blues: A Novel
author:  Pearl Cleage 
description: At the start of this scorching morality tale from Cleage (Babylon Sisters), Wesley "Baby Brother" Jamerson, a soldier reluctantly serving in Iraq, is on a five-day emergency leave in Washington, D.C., because his mother has died. But Wes, who "had made an art form of avoiding responsibility," has no plans to attend his mother's funeral. Nor does he intend to return to his unit in Iraq. A failed attempt to visit his older sister, Cassie, to whom he's shown little gratitude despite all her efforts to help him, leads to a lecture from his judge brother-in-law: "You youngbloods think the world owes you a living, and for what? You're mad at your mamas, mad at your daddies, mad at the women foolish enough to have your children. Always crying the blues." It's downhill for the self-destructive Wes from there. Cleage manages to end on a note of uplift, but an overly complex plot and a surfeit of underdeveloped supporting characters diminish the impact of this novel of infidelity and greed.<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: BABY BLUES
  A VEGAS, BABY NOVELLA
  
  FIONA DAVENPORT
  
  CONTENTS
  Baby Blues
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Epilogue
  Epilogue
  About the Author
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Fiona Davenport
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  BABY BLUES
  Knox Dawson didn’t believe in love at first sight, at least not for himself. He
  watched as his sisters and several of his friends each fell fast and hard,
  confident it would never happen to him. Then he spotted Addilyn Cole on
  stage and realized how wrong he’d been.
  Addilyn jumped at the too-good-to-be-true offer to perform at the Lennox,
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