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    A Taste for More
    A Taste for More
    A Taste for More
    Audiobook10 hours

    A Taste for More

    Written by Phyllis R. Dixon

    Narrated by Patricia R. Floyd

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    About this audiobook

    From rural Mississippi in the Jim Crow era through the transformative 1970s, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a mother’s sacrifice, relentless ambition, and against-all-odds success. But the one dream she can’t stop chasing may cost her everything …

    Money is security. Always. Margo Dupree has lived by that rule since childhood, when her father’s death plunged her and her mother into poverty. Marriage brought only disillusionment and struggle. But it also gave Margo the determination to migrate north in search of a better life for herself and her young daughter, Lana.

    The north, however, isn’t the panacea she expected, and Margo finds herself contending with the all-too-familiar obstacles of racism and prejudice, not to mention the new stresses of urban living. But things change once she realizes that what was once her greatest shame is now her greatest asset—the skills she learned from her mother’s job as a cook. Using her tasty recipes, personality, and relentless hustle, Margo begins to build a successful restaurant chain. Yet despite her ever-more desperate efforts, she can't earn her heart’s deepest desire: Lana’s forgiveness for her early absence.

    As Lana becomes a beautiful young woman with an increasingly mercenary temperament, Margo wonders if she knows her daughter at all—and if she can save her from the bitter and frighteningly dangerous mistakes that may shatter both of their worlds …
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 25, 2024
    ISBN9798892737616
    A Taste for More
    Author

    Phyllis R. Dixon

    Phyllis R. Dixon is the author of the novel Forty Acres, which won fiction awards from Los Angeles Black Book Expo, Detroit Literary Collective and Urban Spectrum Newspaper. Forty Acres has been used in classes at LeMoyne Owen College, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Southeast Arkansas Community College and City College of San Francisco. Her book Let the Brother Go If..., appeared on the Emerge magazine Bestseller list. She is a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul, and has written for American Legacy magazine and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. She resides in Memphis, Tennessee.

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