Remedy for a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson

It is a tale of racism, victimization, and narcissism told with wit and beauty, and it takes the reader on a rich emotional journey, ending on a stunning moment of compassion and grace.- 'LA Review of Books' Reading Light Skin Gone to Waste will remain with us as a multilayered experience and an exquisite example of the art of contemporary American short fiction.- 'New York Journal of Books' Toni Ann Johnson's deft handling of generational trauma, colorism, and class makes Light Skin Gone to Waste an engrossing, even groundbreaking read.- 'Bookpage' If there is one book you MUST add to your reading list this year, it is Toni Ann Johnson's Light Skin Gone To Waste.- 'GirlTalkHQ' In these stories, the characters come into focus vividly, as seen through the eyes of loved ones and the glares of the judgmental. Light Skin Gone to Waste is a brilliant collection that fully demonstrates Johnson's craft and artistry. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from. It seems they've made it in the white world. We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures.

They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. d to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know.

In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife.

Remedy for a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson