1989. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. An Italian mob murders a black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins. That same night, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Lisa and Marc meet at a party. Lisa’s black. Marc’s Italian.They event...
Change can be good--even when the events that lead up to it seem pretty bad. But as the characters in Wendy Coakley-Thompson's powerful new novel discover, a painful past may be the ticket to a fabulous future, if you can just hang on during the twis...
After twenty rejections of Christina's poignant novel based on how she met her Jewish husband, she, on a martini-soaked dare, creates a Caucasian alter ego and writes a lily-white chic lit novel. When her agent actually sells the novel to a publisher...