Good Hair
When a Newark girl meets an upper-crust Boston boy, sparks fly, backgrounds clash, and readers enter a rarely observed aspect of African-American life--in this glamorous, romantic, funny, and poignant debut novel by the former arts and entertainment editor at Essence.
When a Newark girl meets an upper-crust Boston boy, sparks fly, backgrounds clash, and readers enter a rarely observed aspect of African-American life--in this glamorous, romantic, funny, and poignant debut novel by the former arts and entertainment editor at Essence.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684835570 (0684835576)
Publish date: October 6th 1997
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
I've avoided reading chick lit novels with black protagonists because I'm sensitive to portrayals of black women as superficial, vain, and irresponsible. But I was still open to the possibility that one day, I could bear a typically white genre coupled with a tepid exploration of race (if it was dee...
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