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The Hand I Fan With by Tina Mcelroy Ansa

The Hand I Fan With

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Tina Mcelroy Ansa

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Ebook · December 29, 1997

Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson.

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Who it’s for
A playful supernatural romance makes room for desire, companionship, and the burdens of a small town.
Themes
Love and companionship, Supernatural connection, Community burdens
Genres
Paranormal Romance, Black Romance, Later-Life Romance

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About this book

Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson. Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has grown weary of shouldering the town's problems and wants to find a little love and companionship for herself. So she and a friend perform a supernatural ritual to conjure up a man for Lena.

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She gets one all right: a ghost named Herman who, though dead for one hundred years, is full of life and all man. His love changes Lena's life forever, satisfying as never before both her physical and spiritual needs. Filled with the same "humor, grace, and great respect for power of the particular" (The New York Times Book Review) as her previous critically acclaimed novels, Baby of the Family and Ugly Ways, The Hand I Fan With is yet another memorable and life-affirming tale from one of America's best-loved authors.

Love Beyond the Ordinary

A playful supernatural romance makes room for desire, companionship, and the burdens of a small town.

Come here for

  • A ghostly, gently comic turn on romance
  • A heroine making room for love in midlife

Expect

  • A richly drawn fictional Georgia town
  • Humor alongside physical and spiritual longing

Where it sits

Paranormal Romance51%
Black Romance46%
Later-Life Romance29%

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Publisher categories

  • Paranormal Romance
  • Black Women's Fiction
  • Black Romance
Authors
Tina Mcelroy Ansa
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
December 29, 1997
Format
Ebook
Theme
Love and companionship · Supernatural connection · Community burdens
Reading lane
Paranormal Romance