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Mrs. Rose has created real people-flawed, strong, hopeful people-and allowed us to watch their lives unfold and share their struggle, growth and emergence. -Talibah Chikwendu, The AFRO American Newspaper Rose's meditative insights into family closeness and loyalty and her exquisite sense of detail make this a promising debut and a strikingly unusual romance. -Whitney Scott, Booklist The manner in which Rose writes this novel is just as vivid and colorful as a newly painted portrait... -Tee C. Royal, The RAWSISTAZ Review The story creates an awareness and a sort of sensitivity towards those who are struggling to learn who they are. -Flavor Book Club . . . a wonderful book. -Readers Paradise Book Club Odessa's writing is the kind that makes literary agents, editors, and publishers salivate. She's a brilliant wordsmith, a master of metaphor, and a wonderful storyteller. Wondering what decision [Tonya] would make had me swiping my phone like a crazy woman, that along with Odessa's beautiful, imaginative writing that swept me into a whirlwind of suspense, anger, frustration, and laughter. -Alretha Thomas, Actress . . . Rose's work is a beautifully written love story of personal growth and self-acceptance. -Eternity Philops, Author of Visions of a Cryptic Mystery: Volume One [This] sensuous story twists and turns . . . It's a joyous journey through eroticism and art alike . . . A major triumph of African-American lesbian literature. -Accredited Online Colleges.org

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ODESSA ROSE received her B.A. in English from Coppin State University and her M.A. in Literature from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her first novel, Water In A Broken Glass, captured the #6 spot on the On-Demand Best Seller list, received the Just About Books Annual Book Award, is ranked #17 on Accredited Online Colleges' 20 Essential Novels For African-American Women list, was recorded for the Maryland School for the Blind, is included in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, and Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction. Water In A Broken Glass was also adapted into an award winning feature film of the same title. Rose's second novel, In the Mirror received the African American Expo Award for Fiction. Rose is a member of the Black Writers Guild of Maryland. She and her husband are the creators of the television magazine, This Is Baltimore, Too. Rose resides in her hometown of Baltimore with her husband and their three children.

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