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Good Hair Hardback - 1996

by Benilde Little

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When a Newark girl meets an upper-crust Boston boy, sparks fly, backgrounds clash, and readers enter the rarely observed world of the Black elite -- a.k.a. the "Talented Tenth" -- in this glamourous, poignant, funny debut novel by Benilde Little, the former arts and entertainment editor at "Essence.

Alice Andrews is living in Manhattan, working as a reporter in Newark, and spending her free time desperately trying to forget her most recent relationship, with Miles, the smooth-talking investment banker she had mistakenly anointed Mr. Right. Then, on an airplane, she meets handsome Jack Russworm, a third-generation Harvard-educated doctor. With his perfect teeth and good luggage, he shows all the potential for being the real thing.

The new romance seems to be going well, but the issue of their different backgrounds keeps popping up. Clair, Jack's mother, seems frosty to Alice. Jack's ex-girlfriend, Sherry Steptoe, the poster girl for Black American Princess-dom, is a constant reminder of all that Alice is not. Amid the bougie clubbiness it is difficult for Alice to reveal who she really is, while Jack appears oblivious to it all. Or is he?

Benilde Little offers us a delicious, closely observed, eye-opening look at the world of upper-class Black Manhattan in this novel that is alternately humorous and touching, sexy and bold.

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  • Title Good Hair
  • Author Benilde Little
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Publication date 1996
  • ISBN 9780684801766 / 0684801760
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.57 x 6.4 x 0.89 in (24.31 x 16.26 x 2.26 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96026013
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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