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  • From: "Jennifer-Claire Klotz" <jcvk AT hotmail.com>
  • To: smallfarm AT reeusda.gov, ag-mktg AT reeusda.gov, direct-mkt AT reeusda.gov, comfood-l AT listproc.tufts.edu, market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: claire_plum AT hotmail.com
  • Subject: Novel - A Tribute to African American Farmers
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:04:46 PDT


Dear Listers,

Apologies for cross postings. This is intended for those who were interested in the recent black farmers lawsuit....

Best regards,
Claire
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News Release

Expect Sunshine
by Author Betty L. Bush

Debuts New Novel as a Tribute to African-American Farmers

First editions available April 2000

Atlanta, GA - Born a farmer's daughter and raised in rural Georgia, Betty L. Bush is a lawyer who has dedicated the year 2000 to publishing on cultural and legal issues. Inspired by the Black Farmers Settlement Suit, Expect Sunshine, is a poignant narrative where readers meet a 3rd generation African-American farmer Sonny, his faithful bachelor son Kent, and Ellie -- the woman who broke Kent's heart, but could ultimately save his family's land.

A long time coming, Expect Sunshine, praises the tiller of the soil in mainstream literature. Ron Brown, with USDA says, "this is outreach and awareness of life on the land at its best, with a love story twist."

Betty has dedicated this book as a tribute to African-American farmers and her 81 year old father who continues to farm a garden in South Georgia. He is proud of this story that lifts the spirit and shines the light of courage on the plight of African-American farmers, who were 900,000 strong at the turn of the twentieth century. Monica Armster a Regional Coordinator with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund states, "sadly on the dawning of the twenty-first century they are fewer than 18,000."

Perhaps, "not since The Grapes of Wrath has there been such a story of trimuph and travail about a farmer, his passion to keep his land, and his struggle to keep his family," adds National Coalition of 100 Black Women Board of Directory Yvonne Wiltz.

Betty is an exciting and passionate new novelist of southern culture. This brilliantly imagined novel is a suspenseful story of love and forgiveness. Lee Fudge of SAAWG states, "her work provides a natural fit for the aftermath of the past years in the lives of black farmers dealing with the suit to have a bit of sunshine, giving them a small pedestal, which to sit upon with the dignity of humanity in the new millennium."

The novel is the story of a black farmer named Sonny Vinson, in Chester, Georgia, desperate to keep the land of three generations in this family. Sonny made a promise to save his life more than 50 years ago after the dreadful incident at Moccasin Pond, a dirty deal which could cost Sonny everything and everyone that he ever loved. The struggle for his heritage unfolds with Ellie Clayton meeting his son, Kent in their secret place, an old abandoned barn. Kent is the man she left days before their wedding and disappeared to Chicago for twenty years, carrying an unborn child and the secrets of why she really left.


For a limited time only a special edition of Expect Sunshine is available which distinguishes your copy as one of the first to pay tribute to the African American Farmers. Send check or money order for $23.95 (plus 7% tax if Georgia resident) for an autographed book. (For credit card purchases call (404) 763-2536.) The author may be contacted for private group signings or speaking engagements.

For more information contact Betty L. Bush, Museum Charity Publishing, 1302 Spencer Ave., Atlanta, GA 30344. E-mail: b_bush AT bellsouth.net

Website: http://www.expectsunshinebooks.com
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  • Novel - A Tribute to African American Farmers, Jennifer-Claire Klotz, 05/31/2000

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