The Cares of The Day - Reviews

Winner of the 1994 Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction

"In The Cares of the Day, Ivan Webster has written a memorable family chronicle, one filled with concrete, stunning voices, and vivid black characters who survive betrayal and the burdens of oppression in the pre-Civil Rights era. Like Hassalia, the youngest family member who hears and inherits these powerfully delivered oral histories, the reader is transformed by-and then allowed to transcend-the racial pains of the past. Webster's literary debut is a reason for celebration.

-Charles Johnson, prize-winning author of The Middle Passage

"There has been a crying need for the black men to find their voice and raise it…not only in protest but in thoughtful examination. The Cares of the Day brings a new voice to the very human problem of 'then how shall we proceed?' I hope we proceed by taking to our hearts the gift Ivan Webster is giving us. A wonderful new perspective on the lives we are living."

--Nikki Giovanni, author of Racism 101