Big Girls Don't Cry
9 best books like Big Girls Don't Cry (Connie Briscoe): What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Scenes from a Sistah, Disappearing Acts, The Wedding, Brothers and Sisters, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Between Lovers, The Hand I Fan With
Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American women's literature--with a debut novel that sings and crackles with life-affirming energy as it moves the reader to laughter and tears.
As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson...
| Author | Lolita Files |
| ISBN | 0446674427 |
This was pretty demm entertaining, LOL. I particularly loved the frank dialogue. Maybe it's because I don't read much women's lit, but somehow, I don't think I'd find as much unflinching discussion of sex elsewhere.
I do not say this easily since I heartily disapproved of one of the main characters...
| Author | Terry McMillan |
| ISBN | 0451209133 |
He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his type. Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker, and a not-quite-divorced daddy of two. Zora Banks was a teacher,...
| Author | Dorothy West |
| ISBN | 0385471440 |
An Oprah Winfrey Presents Mini-Series on ABC Network Television Starring Halle Berry
In her last novel, Dorothy West, an iconic member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0425172678 |
Bebe Moore Campbell’s Brothers and Sisters, originally published by Putnam in 1994* in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, is a true testament to what I wish we could see more of on bestseller lists today. Published during an era of growing racial tensions (though what era doesn’t have that?)...
Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made
| Author | Virginia DeBerry |
| ISBN | 0312963130 |
From the time they were young, Gayle and Patricia were raised like sisters, as close as two friends could be. But they each had dreams that would take them far away - and far away from each other. Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her world complete. Patricia was the intellectual who...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0345401123 |
Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town.
Chicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to...
| Author | Eric Jerome Dickey |
| ISBN | 0451204689 |
With each new novel, Eric Jerome Dickey has established himself as one of the freshest and most exciting writers on America's contemporary fiction scene. His latest book is no exception. Set in the San Francisco Bay area, Between Lovers brings together three irresistible characters. The novel's...
| Author | Tina McElroy Ansa |
| ISBN | 0385476019 |
Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson. Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has grown weary of shouldering the town's problems and wants...
