Where There’s Smoke by Terra Little
By Angelia Menchan • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009 •
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Where There’s Smoke by Terra Little is a cautionary tale about how what one does in the dark can come to the light. Or, more appropriately, when a person changes his life that does not mean people or situations from the past will not find them.
Alec Avery is now a professional, a teacher, who is doing well and giving back to his community. He is respectable and all that a black man should be. Especially, since he gave up a life of drug-dealing to better himself and his situation. He is doing everything right, so surely nothing can go wrong. That is true until he discovers that he just might be a father. Not only a father, but father to a teen son he did not know existed. Will Alec, or rather Smoke, the name he used when he was dealing drugs, really be a father? Or is the boy’s mother, Anne, confused or manipulative, considering she is a former crack addict?
Ms Little does a good job of exploring the lives of people who were on different paths until they decided to change. She presents the characters and the situations realistically and allows the reader to know that change is more than a word, it involves action. I really enjoyed Where There’s Smoke and recommend it to readers who enjoy well-told, realistic stories.
Angelia Menchan
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Angelia Menchan is wife, mother, mentor and the author of five books, most recently, “Is No Not Clear Enough For You? She is a reviewer for APOOO Exchange Team. Angelia currently works as a Budget Officer, but her most rewarding work experience was as Job Corps Counselor. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her love and reading. Her motto is, “You Get from the Universe, What You Give to the Universe.” She can be contacted at www.angeliavmenchan.com and http://acvermen.blogspot.com
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I plan to read this
I heard about this book on one of the blog radio shows; it was received very well by the callers. BTW, Angelia, I LOVE your motto; sounds justlike something I read by a woman who does a newletter for the “homechurched.”
Angelia, this sounds like a good read and I know some men that probably can relate. I’m going to share this title with them.