Memoir of a Minnie Riperton Fan

"Memoir of a Minnie Riperton Fan" is the story of a writer's journey through the life and times of her childhood idol, singer Minnie Riperton -- best known for her five-octave range and the 1975 hit song, "Lovin' You." In Cleveland, where persistently cloudy skies serve as a backdrop for the writer's disillusionment with life, our writer abandons her newspaper job. She travels to Chicago, Florida, New York, Acapulco and L.A. to explore the seemingly fairy-tale life of Riperton, who died of ...