Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven
by Dawn Turner Trice
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Publication Date: Feb 28, 1998
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 318 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385491235
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
n 1975, Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of sparkling apartment towers and emerald lawns where the Black elite live sheltered from the ghetto by a ten-foot-tall, ivy-covered wrought-iron fence. Eleven-year-old Temmy doesn’t enjoy the privilege, however, and thinks Lakeland is the "kingdom of the drab." Instead, she is drawn to the vivid world outside the fence: to 35th Street, where the saved and the sinners are both so "done up" you can’t tell one from the other. Tempestt’s curiosity soon leads her down a dangerous path, however, and after witnessing the death of a friend, she sets into motion a chain of events that will send 35th Street up in flames.
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