Modern Footsteps What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, by Pearl Cleage, is a novel about Ava Johnson’s personal battles dealing with what life has dealt her; being a successful black woman, with HIV. Ava’s life is transformed when she discovers that her glitzy Atlanta lifestyle can no longer continue. She is forces to close her hair salon because of the fear of the public towards her. Her plan was vague, to …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 635 total…the moonlight.” (244) What Looks Like Crazy is an example of modern literature that depicts these times of change and lack of norms. Slowly stereotypes are dissolving. All of our technology can not save us from social epidemics we have, such as the HIV virus. All of the money, fame, and prosperity that flows through our country can not keep us from the constant needs that all of us like Ava need; stability, family, and love.