Background
Nancy Rawles was born in 1958. She grew up in Los Angeles, California.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
Nancy Rawles holds a degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
Nancy Rawles holds a degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
(In South Central Los Angeles in 1978, Grace Broussard, th...)
In South Central Los Angeles in 1978, Grace Broussard, the youngest member of a Creole family transplanted from Louisiana, seeks to distance herself from her family through a ten-point plan designed to shock them, but the ghost of her father interferes with her plans.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Like-Gumbo-Fjord-Discoveries/dp/0940242753/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Love+Like+Gumbo&qid=1588835039&s=books&sr=1-1
1997
(Camille Broussard can remember a time when she had more p...)
Camille Broussard can remember a time when she had more pep in her stride and her single-story house was one of the nicest homes in the cozy, well-kept neighborhood of Watts. Her kitchen overflowed with the fragrant aromas of Creole cooking, and the taste of her divine crawfish, rich gumbos, and delicious pralines had family and friends begging for seconds and thirds. The devastation of the Watts riots and the ravages of Reaganomics, however, changed everything. Her neighbors have fled, the church pews are nearly empty at Sunday mass, and her own children have turned their backs on Watts and on the pride and values Camille instilled in them. Her grandson Nicholas has just finished serving time for a crime he knew better than to commit; her politically active lesbian daughter, Grace, is struggling with an identity crisis; and Yvette, her naïve, sexually cloistered daughter, has a husband whose secrets threaten to destroy the bond between mother and daughter. But despite how far they have strayed, Camille is not ready to give up on the family who has nourished her as she has nourished them. So she decides to combine her love of family and her love of cooking into one great enterprise. She opens Camille’s Creole Kitchen and recruits her family to help her get the restaurant on its feet. As the business gradually grows, Camille not only restores her family’s spirit and sense of purpose, she also recovers her own lost dreams.
https://www.amazon.com/Crawfish-Dreams-Novel-Nancy-Rawles/dp/0385504187/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Crawfish+Dreams&qid=1588835155&s=books&sr=1-1
2003
(A retelling of the story of escaped slave Jim from Huckle...)
A retelling of the story of escaped slave Jim from Huckleberry Finn. This novel shifts the focus to Jim's wife Sadie.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JHT7W0/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=My+Jim&qid=1588835316&s=books&sr=1-2
2005
Nancy Rawles was born in 1958. She grew up in Los Angeles, California.
Nancy Rawles holds a degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She studied playwriting in Chicago and later attended the Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center and The Hansberry Project.
For twenty-five years, Nancy Rawles has taught the art of storytelling to writers of all ages. Her first novel, Love like Gumbo, concerns twenty-year-old Grace Broussard, a member of a Louisiana-born family transplanted to South Central Los Angeles. The story is a coming-of-age saga, as Grace attempts to break away from her loving but domineering family.
Crawfish Dreams tells the story of an elder’s coming to terms with the devastation of her community and the depression of her offspring and was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. My Jim tells the story of the wife and children of Mark Twain’s famous slave character from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Nancy Rawles is best known as the author of Love Like Gumbo, Crawfish Dreams, and My Jim. Love Like Gumbo won an American Book Award. My Jim is the winner of American Library Association’s Alex Award for adult books that appeal to teen readers.
Nancy has also received a Jack Straw Productions Artist Project Award, a King County Arts Commission Special Projects Award, a Seattle Arts Commission Seattle Artist Award, and a 2012 CityArtist Project grant, among others.
(In South Central Los Angeles in 1978, Grace Broussard, th...)
1997(Camille Broussard can remember a time when she had more p...)
2003(A retelling of the story of escaped slave Jim from Huckle...)
2005
