Bebe Moore Campbell (35 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to thank my editor, Phyllis Grann, for continuing to be my champion and for having faith in this project. You are the best in the industry, and I value your wisdom and guidance. As always, thank you, Lynn Nesbitt, for your expert handling of the business part of writing. To the members of my four-generational household: Mom, Ellis, Maia, and Elisha, your background noise helped to create the rhythm of this book. Ellis, you especially contribute such beautiful music to my life. Don’t ever stop. And for all the faithful ones, courageous enough to believe that hard times can make way for good outcomes and even happy endings, may God bless you.

Bebe Moore Campbell

72 HOUR HOLD

Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of three
New York
Times
bestsellers:
Brothers and Sisters
,
Singing in the
Comeback Choir
, and
What You Owe Me
, which was also a
Los Angeles Times
Best Book of 2001. Her other works include the novel
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
, which was a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature.

www.bebemoorecampbell.com

ALSO BY BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL

Sweet Summer, Growing Up With and Without My Dad
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
Brothers and Sisters
Singing in the Comeback Choir
What You Owe Me
Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2006

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the
product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Campbell, Bebe Moore, [date].
72 hour hold: a novel / by Bebe Moore Campbell.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Manic-depressive persons—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.A4395A613 2005
813’.54—dc22
2004057620

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