The Battle of a Daytime Nightmare

Thelma Battle-Buckner has chronicled a rich and arresting family history. The author stitches together, brilliantly, a dazzling tapestry of her family's will to overcome whatever obstacles life's circumstance places before it. The Battle of a Daytime Nightmare is about her and her family's journey. It exemplifies unity. It is rife with pleasant and stormy unpleasant surprises. It is penned in the plain and poetic speech, style and spirit of her culture. In some ways, the Battle-Buckner...
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Thelma Battle-Buckner has chronicled a rich and arresting family history. The author stitches together, brilliantly, a dazzling tapestry of her family's will to overcome whatever obstacles life's circumstance places before it. The Battle of a Daytime Nightmare is about her and her family's journey. It exemplifies unity. It is rife with pleasant and stormy unpleasant surprises. It is penned in the plain and poetic speech, style and spirit of her culture. In some ways, the Battle-Buckner story amounts to a sharply focused snap shot of the travails of Black America, of "Making way out of no way." The substance of her life flows broad and low like a good Sunday morning sermon; it speaks of work, ties, struggle, joys, victory, religion, music and undying love, not only for her family, but for humans at large.