Cascade Heights Author Pearl Cleage Delivers A Fun Summer Read

Just in time for the summer reading season, southwest Atlanta author/playwright Pearl Cleage steps out of her comfort zone and delivers a fun, page-turner read with her latest novel “Just Wanna Testify” (One Word/Ballentine).

A long-time resident of the Cascade Heights community, Cleage once again sets her story in the West End community of Atlanta not too far from where she lives with her husband, writer Zaron Burnett.

“This time I put five beautiful female vampires smack dead into West End looking to collect a debt from five Morehouse men who have left a trailed of broken hearts behind them,” Cleage said during an interview before her booksigning at the Hammond House Gallery located in the Historic West End.

“All they have to do to save their lives is to find one woman who will say they are 'good' men, but they are having a hard time finding this person because of all of the bridges they have burned,” she said.

Before penning her first novel, Cleage was known on the theater circuit as an accomplished playwright. She rocketed to national fame when one of her novels, “What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day” was chosen as an Oprah Bookclub selection.

Cleage also penned a poem for Oprah's special tribute to ground-breaking African American women which included Cicely Tyson, Coretta Scott King, Maya Angelou and Diana Ross.

Check back with Cascade Patch for future signings by Cleage in the metro Atlanta area.  

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