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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was published on December 1st, 1997 by Pearl Cleage.

Plot Summary
The novel is split up into six parts: June, July, August, September, October, and November.

June

Ava Johnson, a young black woman living in Atlanta, is diagnosed with HIV which she contracted from an unknown source through sexual intercourse. Upon her HIV-positive diagnosis, she is alienated by her community in Atlanta and loses her clients at her hair salon on the basis of people's fear of the virus and their association of it with AIDS. Ava decides to move to Idlewild, Michigan, her hometown, to live with her widowed sister Joyce before fulfilling her dream to start a new life in San Francisco, California. Ava's sister, Joyce, becomes a widow after her husband died of drowning two years prior to Ava's arrival back in Idlewild.

Characters
Ava Johnson: Ava Johnson is the main protagonist of the novel. After her diagnosis with HIV, she makes the decision to move from Atlanta back to her hometown of Idlewild, Michigan to live with her sister Joyce for the summer.

Joyce Mitchell: Joyce Mitchell is the older sister of Ava Johnson. She works as a state caseworker and guides a group of teenage mothers in a group called the "Sewing Circus" at the local Church with the purpose of support and education.

Mitch Mitchell: Mitch is the late husband of Joyce Mitchell. After 23 years of marriage to Joyce, he tragically slipped and drowned into a lake covered with a thin sheet of ice by their house in Michigan.

Eddie Jefferson:

Eartha:

Gerry Anderson:

Reverend Anderson:

Imani: Imani is the "crack baby" of

Frank:

Tyrone: