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| Author | Pearl Cleage |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Avon |
Publication date | December 1, 1997 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (first edition hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-380-97584-X (first edition hardcover) |
| OCLC | 37024133 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.L389 W48 1997 |
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is the 1997 debut novel by Pearl Cleage. It was published by Avon on December 1, 1997 and was selected for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club in 1998 and was a New York Times Best Seller for nine straight weeks.[1][2] What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day marks Pearl Cleage's first published novel and it is followed by the 2001 novel I Wish I Had a Red Dress. The novel depicts the life of a young African-American woman named Ava Johnson in the following months after being diagnosed with HIV; in addition to the realities of living with a retrovirus, Cleage's work addresses issues involving race, sexuality, gender, class, and ability in American society.[2]
- ^ Aubrey, Bryan (2003). "Critical Essay on What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day". Novels for Students. 17 – via GALE.
- ^ a b Lyle, Timothy (Summer 2017). "Tryin' to Scrub that "Death Pussy" Clean Again: The Pleasures of Domesticating HIV/AIDS in Pearl Cleage's Fiction". African American Review. 50 (2): 153–168. doi:10.1353/afa.2017.0019. S2CID 148617540.