Getting Our Breath Back

Shawne Johnson's emotionally stirring debut novel has been called "a rawer Waiting to Exhale." Three African-American sisters, living in late 1960s Philadelphia, face issues such as drug addiction, racial tension, the Vietnam War, and the death of their father from lung cancer. Together they stri...

Shawne Johnson received her undergraduate degree from Bennett College in North Carolina and completed her Master's degree in English Literature at Temple University in Philadelphia.