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With These Hands
A Country Girl Came To Town
(22 Reviews)
With These Hands is an inspiring story of the life of Selena, who as a young girl in 1941 arrived in the big windy City of Chicago on a bus from Memphis Tennessee by way of Clarksdale Mississippi with all that she owned in her two hands. Her new baby girl in one arm, her suitcase and handmade quilt was in her other arm. Away from her mother, family and everything considered home for the first time in her young life Selena had no idea what the future held for her…but God knew
As a young newlywed, new mother in a new town, from cooking all of her meals in her one granite pan to becoming a successful business woman owning multiple beauty and hair weev salons in Chicago and Detroit. Selena who began as a “kitchen beautician went from charging fifty cents a head in her kitchen to charging hundreds and then thousands per head in her professional salons. Teaching and sharing her craft of hair weev technology with cosmetologists all over the world exposed Selena’s Perseverance which has always been a part of Selena’s nature way back then and has served as an inspiration to many others ever since.
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I started to read this book and was immediately captivated by the main character. It's beautifully and truthfully written so much so that I could easily envision this as a mini series. A true piece of Chicago Americana awaits you!
Reader
I enjoyed reading about Selena's successful career and how fancy she dressed and the beautiful cars she had. Some of the stories about the pimps and their ladies were interesting. I'm just waiting for the continuance book that goes with the ending of this book. Nice story and the author is a wonderful beautiful person inside and out.
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What an awesome book about an extraordinary lady! Miss Selena is proof that there is NO excuse not to succeed. She was born in the rural south when Jim Crow and segregation was the law of the land but she didn't allow that to stop her from having ambition. She had a child and married in her teens but she was still part of the Great Migration.
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Love the Book! I know the author, Mrs Bonnie Taylor-Williams personally and she is Beautiful inside and out!!!! Excellent Reading *********** 10 STARS!!!
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I thoroughly enjoyed this read! This read enlightened me to the lifestyles of Blacks in the South. The main character, Selena was a strong black woman with exceptional aspirations. I really admired her strong desire to pull herself up by the "bootstraps" so to speak and venture out and eventually become a very successful, well-known entrepreneur. I was disappointed because the book ended just as I was really getting into the read. I'm looking forward to reading the continued version.
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This book brought back an era in Chicago history where being a successful African-American entrepreneur was not just a dream but a reality!
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Bonnie, I truly enjoyed reading your book. You are an amazing writer. I know you are so proud of your grandmother Selena. She is truly a proverbs 31 woman. I can’t wait to read your next book.
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A true story about the author's grandmother, from her beginning and upbringing in Clarksdale, Mississippi, to her travels to Chicago, where she settles down and opens her hair salon and evens teaches a new technique to other cosmetologist's.