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Article: A Fool's Paradise. (fiction reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- November 1, 2001
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A Fool's Paradise By Nancy Flowers Wilson Flowers in Bloom Publishing, Marcli 2001, $14.00, ISBN 0-970-81910-2
Images of sea-salt air and a sky with many moods takes us to Jamaica in Nancy Flowers Wilson's debut novel, A Fool's Paradise. It opens with Anne-Marie Saunders, a premed student at the University of the West Indies, struggling to balance the desires of her heart. "I have three passions: My boyfriend, Donovan ... the second is school ... the last is my desire to travel to America. As it turned out, one of my passions would be my downfall. The other would do me the most harm, and the third would be my salvation."
Anne-Marie has spent her entire ...