Third Girl from the Left

At the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twenty-year-old beauty who leaves the stifling conformity of Oklahoma to search for fame during the rise of blaxploitation cinema in Los Angeles. But for her mother, Mildred, a strait-laced survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Angela's acting career is unforgivable, and the distance between them grows into a silence that lasts for years. It is only when Angela's daughter, Tamara, a filmmaker, sets out to close the rift between them that the women are forced to confront all that has been left unspoken in their lives.

Bold and beautifully written, Third Girl from the Left deftly explores the bonds of family and the inextricable pull of the movies.

Author: Martha Southgate
Publisher: Amistad Press
Published: 09/05/2006
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.18w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780618773381
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/01/2006 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 07/04/2014 pg. 66

About the Author
Southgate, Martha: - MARTHA SOUTHGATE was born and raised in Cleveland. She received her B.A. from Smith College and an M.F.A. from Goddard College. She has been an editor at Essence, a reporter for Premiere and the New York Daily News, and a contributor to the New York Times. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Fall of Rome. Southgate lives in Brooklyn, New York.