BLACK TEARS is an epic tale about a young African American girl who experience innumerable adversities because of her dark skin color. The genre is similar to "The Color Purple" and "The Imitation of Life". The main focus of the book is to point out the slave mentality that existed and still exists in the African American community. Lorretta Lynn Russell"s life change when her mother passed away. She and her two siblings are forced to move in with a loveless grandmother. Grandma Hattie Mae despises Lorretta Lynn and thinks she is a black curse on the family. She lives with a daily barrage of insults regarding her dark skin, and she can"t do anything right in Hattie Mae"s eyes. Hattie Mae is tired, old, and deeply burdened. Lorretta Lynn is a constant reminder of the dark musician who had seduced her daughter Cookie, and led...