Colored Waiting Room..........by Patricia Pope

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COLORED WAITING ROOM is a novel set in contemporary rural Tennessee that poignantly reveals the struggles of a Black female to be accepted in the unwavering traditional workforce ranks of a racist employment circle. The author takes the reader on a suspense-filled journey from a fierce beginning to a shocking and unpredictable ending. Injecting murder, corruption, and deceit into the arena of the federal government, the story paints a picture not readily forgotten. The central character explores love, deals with personal weaknessess and vulnerability.

Published by Trafford Publishing
2002
ISBN: 155369136-9

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An Excerpt:
For years, Alberta fought to avoid this hour of reckoning, when everything that had occurred would be reduced to front-page rhetoric and recyclable mush. But fate intervened, causing her to believe in the worst type of disease – a virus that develops, moves and settles, all in silence – hatred. Nothing mattered but revenge. Getting even with those whom she believed were a part of her destruction; getting even, in the most irrational method conceivable, she felt, would wipe the slate clean for her years of humiliation at TVA, and the years of racial discrimination others had experienced. This was her hour of self-actualization.

As she crossed the small concrete room, Alberta Graham counted each stick of dynamite stacked neatly on the shelf. The count was the same as five minutes earlier. Exactly fifty pieces. With trembling fingers she wiped sweat from her brow, and stood staring at the explosives. Satisfied, she backed away.

Cherokee Nuclear Plant had proved easy to enter without detection for Alberta. She entered with a sense of well-being. The Westside Wind Tunnel, overgrown and forgotten, opened as the Red Sea and cleared a path for her to escape further into her fantasy, into a world that would have an ending. A few clips of the underbrush and she ran the half mile stretch to safety, laughing aloud at the incompetence of the security force.

REVIEWS



Oprah really does know good literary work when she sees it.

Suzanne Claud, from Bookideas.com Colored Waiting Room by Patricia Pope is not for the faint hearted. It is a powerful story of one woman’s stand against racism, bigotry and government racketeering. It is an honest book where the novel’s central character is portrayed ‘warts and all’. You will empathize with her but the subtle changes in her character as the situations unveil are disturbing leading to an inevitable ending.I recommend this book especially for those people who are interested in psychology and the effects of power play on the mind. Check out the entire review at www.bookideas.com

CWR from Daytona Beach, Fl USA"Colored Waiting Room is a captivating novel that keeps you wanting to know more about the perils of Alberta Graham. This is definitely a thinker's novel. The novel has been painted in a way that holds you and makes you say, "It's got to get better". This novel is not a predictable one, it does have some dips, turns, and twist in it. Patricia Pope does a fine job in showing how in a given situation, over a period of time, the mind and soul can be stripped of all hope."

NETWORKING


Patricia with Dick Gregory, Freda Payne and Maxine Waters

We can only hope that enough exposure of Patricia's work will result in the ultimate elimination of what we know to be an all too familiar part of amerikan history.

The Best of Luck in spreading the word Sister Patricia......