It is the Temptations "live" at the Apollo, subway rides, a warm church community, pizza, new friends, and the enticement of a college education. She discovers, however, that New York is other things as well. While life in Waycross was rich in familiarity, community concern and sharing, firm belief, and traditional behavior, Ludell finds New York to be concrete, strangers, and excesses of every description. This dream helps her cope with being away from Willie, with her rather tenuous relationship with her mother, and with the totally different way of life in Harlem. She has every expectation that Willie will come North shortly after graduation and they will be married. , to live with her long-absent mother, Dessa, in Harlem. The death of Ludell's grandmother, "Mama," has necessitated Ludell's leaving Willie and her hometown, Waycross, Ga. Just six weeks before high school graduation and their anticipated marriage, Ludell and Willie find themselves separated. But it is the sights, sounds, and events of the '60s which form the backdrop for "Ludell's New York Time." "Ludell's New York Time" is the continuation of a love story begun in "Ludell and Willie." It is the latest of three novels chronicling the life of Ludell Wilson, whose story begins in the 1950s in "Ludell," Brenda Wilkinson's first novel.
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