Interview with author Carolyn Virginia Parnell The Ghost of Bertha Mae
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The Ghost of Bertha Mae: Parnell, Carolyn Virginia: 9781646285914: Amazon.com: Books
The Ghost of Bertha Mae is a thrilling tale that begins in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s. Rose Marie and her sister, Annie Mae, brother’s Frederick Jr. and Charles live with their narcissistic mother in a cramped two-bedroom house with an outdoor toilet. Her mother hated Rose Marie from the time she was born and as she grew older even more so. They were on welfare and went without food several days each month because their mother misused their welfare allowance.
Rose Marie was made to do most of the chores. If Bertha Mae wasn’t satisfied, she beat her tirelessly with a belt and insulted her as if she had no feelings. When she could find time alone, she often dreamed about having a better life and prayed that one day her mother would love her. One night Frederick Jr. intervene, when one of Bertha Mae’s many male visitors tried raping Rose Marie at age fourteen.
After Bertha Mae died, Rose Marie found a letter, learning that her birth name was Yvette, not Rose Marie. A letter filled with no remorse.
Evette moves to Seattle, an excellent student, attends college and meets David who falls deeply in love with her and later asks to marry her. Afterward, Bertha Mae begins to haunt her to take her body and live again. Will Yvette free herself from her evil mother’s horrible grip. Will David stand by her? Will she live?
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The Ghost of Bertha Mae: Parnell, Carolyn Virginia: 9781646285914: Amazon.com: Books
The Ghost of Bertha Mae is a thrilling tale that begins in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s. Rose Marie and her sister, Annie Mae, brother’s Frederick Jr. and Charles live with their narcissistic mother in a cramped two-bedroom house with an outdoor toilet. Her mother hated Rose Marie from the time she was born and as she grew older even more so. They were on welfare and went without food several days each month because their mother misused their welfare allowance.
Rose Marie was made to do most of the chores. If Bertha Mae wasn’t satisfied, she beat her tirelessly with a belt and insulted her as if she had no feelings. When she could find time alone, she often dreamed about having a better life and prayed that one day her mother would love her. One night Frederick Jr. intervene, when one of Bertha Mae’s many male visitors tried raping Rose Marie at age fourteen.
After Bertha Mae died, Rose Marie found a letter, learning that her birth name was Yvette, not Rose Marie. A letter filled with no remorse.
Evette moves to Seattle, an excellent student, attends college and meets David who falls deeply in love with her and later asks to marry her. Afterward, Bertha Mae begins to haunt her to take her body and live again. Will Yvette free herself from her evil mother’s horrible grip. Will David stand by her? Will she live?
