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Just One Look by Joanne Kukanza Easley

Just One Look by Joanne Kukanza Easley

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TITLE INFORMATION

Just One Look

Joanne Kukanza Easley

Black Rose Writing, 286 pages

9781684337262, 6.24.21

BOOK REVIEW

Overall Rating = 4.83

Storyline & Concept = 4.75

Writing & Delivery = 4.75

Editorial = 5

Set in Chicago in 1965, the story begins by painting the colorful and blissful picture of Dani and her first love, John Nagy, a man with a Southern drawl that stole her heart. Filled with hope of a bright future with John and a passion that surpasses ‘young love’, Dani is faced with a tragedy that tears that future apart. The reader experiences Dani’s journey through her relationships with the people around her – her family, her encounters with men, and those she allows close to her.  Despite the seemingly perfect beginning of the story, Dani is met with challenges and struggles that lead her to believe she will never again find love like her first. We follow her evolution from a hopeful thirteen-year-old to a strong woman with two ghosts behind her and a daughter she loves deeply. 

In Just One Look, Joanne Kukanza Easley grasps and holds onto the reader’s attention throughout the novel as the events in Dani’s life unfold. Each character is written with a depth that keeps the reader intrigued. Both Dani’s sister and her mother undergo their own character development from the beginning to the end of the novel, while Dani’s relationships with them take different shapes as life events offer her new perspectives. Set during the time of the Vietnam war, the social influences of the sixties and seventies are apparent throughout the book.  Easley’s descriptions of the settings immerse the reader directly into this time and space. I would recommend this book to anyone craving a love story that is anything but predictable.

Sublime line: “Easley writes a thoroughly gripping story, set in the sixties and seventies, of a woman’s loss and grief, and how, after a series of trying events, she learned how to heal her heart again.”

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