Ansa, Tina McElroy

The hand I fan with by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
17 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in English and German and held by 1,339 libraries worldwide
All her life, Lena McPherson, 45, has been using her supernatural powers to help people in Mulberry, Georgia, yet never has she been able to use them for herself, say to find love. One day that changes when a man who is visible only to her enters her life. But a spirit's love is impermanent, one of the disadvantages of falling in love with a ghost.

Baby of the family by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
10 editions published between 1989 and 1996 in English and held by 1,185 libraries worldwide
Born in 1949 in a private blacks-only hospital in rural Georgia, Lena is the third child and longed-for first daughter of Nellie and Jonah, who own the local bar and liquor store. Considered "special" because she was born with a caul, believed to bestow sight into the future, Lena learns as a toddler that her special powers have more to do with the past: she can see and talk with ghosts. Despite her extraordinary talent, Lena is most memorable for the ordinariness of her everyday life: her first friendships, her years at school, her observations of her parents' sometimes stormy relationship, her grief at her grandmother's death.

Ugly ways : a novel by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
10 editions published between 1993 and 1997 in English and held by 1,076 libraries worldwide
Three sexy, screwed-up Southern sisters come home to Mulberry to put their totally self-centered mother, Mudear, in her grave. We meet the Lovejoy women as they gather in their mother's house to lay her and the demons she has dumped on them to rest. Mudear Lovejoy was the kind of mother who ruled her house and raised her daughters with an iron hand even after her "change". Betty is her oldest daughter, big-boned and strong, the only one who remembers what Mudear was like before The Change. Emily is the middle child, restless and divorced, the one who every one assumed would be the first after Mudear to crack. The youngest is wild Annie Ruth, a TV anchorwoman who is pregnant out of wedlock and plagued by visions of menacing cats. Ernest, their father, is a kaolin mine worker who is so overwhelmed by all the females around him that sometimes he just wants to yell out, "Womens taking over my house!" As the sisters reminisce, they are unaware that even though Mudear's body is laid out in Parkinson Funeral Home, she is not so easily buried. Her spirit refuses to die, and she floats around Mulberry, watching her daughters stretched out on her porch smoking cigarettes, drinking her husband's liquor from her best glasses, and talking about marijuana like "some damn black girl hippies". In alternating voices, each member of the Lovejoy family tells us what preys on his or her mind. As they prepare for the memorial, sit up with the body, and at the funeral itself, each must come to grips with her relationship to Mudear. At the same time, each must define what a mother, a black mother - their mother - is.

You know better : a novel by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
12 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and held by 961 libraries worldwide
A novel of relationships and pathos follows the struggles of three very different women over one weekend as they seek to confront the pain of their lives.

Taking after Mudear : a novel by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide

New Southerners. Kaye Gibbons, Tina McElroy Ansa( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide
Gibbons reads from and discusses two of her books, "Ellen Foster" and "Charms for the easy life. Afro-American author Ansa reads from and discusses her work "Ugly ways". Both Southern writers converse about their writing styles and the unique contributions of Southern writers to American fiction.

Die treulosen Töchter Roman by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
2 editions published in 1996 in German and held by 5 libraries worldwide

Gemene streken : roman by Tina MacElroy Ansa( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in Dutch and held by 5 libraries worldwide
Bij de voorbereiding van de begrafenis van hun wonderlijke moeder komen drie zusters bij elkaar..

Lena Glückskind : Roman by Tina McElroy Ansa( Book )
2 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in German and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Breaking ice eine Anthologie zeitgenössischer afro-amerikanischer Literatur( Book )
1 edition published in 1994 in German and held by 4 libraries worldwide