Bonnie J. Glover was born in Florence, Alabama. However she was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and attended P.S. 158 where her mother was a para-professional. It should be noted that at one juncture her mother caught her walking across desks in the classroom and was merciful enough to let Bonnie live. She attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn and Florida A & M University School of Business and Industry (SBI) in Tallahassee, Florida.

After a series of jobs, the last of which was at the Housing Authority for the City of Tampa, Bonnie was accepted to Stetson University College of Law and she graduated with a Juris Doctorate degree. After graduation Bonnie clerked for several judges in Pinellas County and then was employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs in their mediation program.

Bonnie currently has a mediation practice and writes in between soccer matches, baseball games and whatever other sports her children are involved with at the moment. Bonnie is married and feels both blessed and privileged to be doing all the things she has dreamed of doing. Her favorite quote: With God all things are possible.

Going Down South
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (July 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345480910
 

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“Long live Olivia Jean, Daisy, and Birdie! These three daughters, mothers, and women are smart, feisty, and funny. Their stories will break your heart in the very best way. I absolutely loved Going Down South!”
—Carleen Brice, author of Orange Mint and Honey

When fifteen-year-old Olivia Jean discovers that she is pregnant, her parents flee their New York home and bring her to her grandmother Birdie's Alabama farm. They plan on leaving her there for the duration of her pregnancy, but Birdie insists that Olivia Jean can stay only if her mother, Daisy, stays as well. Though she and her mother have been estranged for years, Daisy sees no alternative but to send her beloved, though unfaithful husband back north and settle in to life "down South" with her mother and daughter. Now that these three generations of proud, spirited women are together under one roof, Birdie, Daisy, and Olivia Jean must make sense of their roles as mothers -- and find a place in their lives for love, independence and each other.

The Middle Sister
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (May 31, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345480902
 

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“As Kwai Chang moved through the arid desert of the American West, I would move through the equally desolate ghettos of Brooklyn, and we would each search: he for his family and I for my father. . . .”

The middle of three sisters, Pamela is a quiet, thoughtful girl with a huge hole in her life–the space her father used to fill before her mother kicked him out. Occasionally, Pamela conjures up Kwai Chang, David Carradine’s character, from the Western action series Kung Fu, to give her spiritual guidance and advice she would normally turn to her parents for. But with her father gone, her mother has fallen into a pit of confusion and mental disarray. So it is up to Pamela and her sisters, Nona and Theresa, to run the household.

When their money runs out, the family must leave their beloved East New York house and move to the projects. It is a change that will alter their lives forever–and even wise Kwai Chang cannot alter their destiny. But as Pamela discovers, “Everyone searches. The real challenge is in the finding and the keeping.”

In this powerful literary debut, vividly set in the 1970s, Bonnie Glover has written a marvelous story about a young black woman struggling to define her identity–and make her family whole.

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