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The Edge of Heaven - Review
By Michele N-K Collison
Jul 16, 2007, 01:20

The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden, Doubleday, $22.95,288 pages.

For her fourth novel, Golden tackles the complex web of emotions that a family experiences when a member emerges from prison. Told in the voices of the three survivors of a family tragedy -- adult daughter Theresa, her artist father Ryland, and accountant turned ex-con mother Lena -- the book treads across landscape that is all too familiar for many African Americans.