Please Please Please - A Novel

Zusatztext "Move over! Bridget Jones. Watch your back! Terry McMillan. Babysister has got your number! and she won't be satisfied till she's broken every heart in town." --Mark Childress! author of Crazy in Alabama "Whew!!! 'Please Please Please' give me more! A huge applause and thank you to Renée Swindle for a fun juicy ride with Babysister." --Rita Ewing! co-author of Homecourt Advantage "This novel reads like a good piece of gossip! intense and dramatic....Highly entertaining." -- Black Issues Book Review "A lusty tale...Swindle is funny! perceptive...she makes Terry McMillan look tame." -- Baltimore Sun "A revealing story about friendship! family and love." -- Cover Story "Renée Swindle's first novel succeeds wonderfully." --Jervey Tervalon! author of Understand This "Don't miss this funny debut novel by a daring new writer." -- Beyond the Cover Informationen zum Autor Renée Swindle received her MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University, where she taught both composition and creative writing. She lives in Oakland, California. Klappentext Babysister gets what Babysister wants. Always has. Always will. After all! she's been spoiled rotten ever since she witnessed her mother's death as a child! and she's made the most of it-especially with her dad. So when her oldest friend! Deborah! begins to date a fine-looking! fine-acting man named Darren-Babysister doesn't think twice: she wants Darren for herself. And what Babysister wants... There are just a few little problems with their secret love affair. Babysister's devoted boyfriend is one. And Darren's lingering doubts about dumping Deborah--light-skinned! church-going! beautiful--is another. But Babysister won't let go! even after Darren crawls back to Deborah--and marries her. Following her love-crazed heart! Babysister jeopardizes friendship! family! and her own self-esteem! until a little dose of reality shows her how much she's been missing all along. One Don't let anyone tell you any different, sometimes love isn't about nothing but a crooked tooth, the curl of an eyebrow, the hairs on a wrist, a gold chain, or one small mole. For me, it's boots. Have you ever seen a black man in boots? Well, there you go. So when Darren sort of leaned into me and said my name, and I turned around to see his six-foot-three-inch body pressed firmly into two perfectly polished black boots, I'm sorry, but I was gone. Later. Goodbye. Adiós. It wasn't like I'd never been with a man who wore boots before. But the thing with most of them was, once they took off their boots, they became that much shorter, that much fatter. At least that's the way it went with Greg and John and Roger too. No boots, no magic. Just like that, and they were reduced to this person walking around looking entirely lost. I tried. Believe me, I tried: Listen, baby, why don't you put your boots on. You look so fine in your boots. But sooner or later we had to go to bed, and poof, the magic was gone. But not with Darren. Boots or no boots, he couldn't get on my nerves if he tried. Darren was it. The first time the combination was right: fine and intelligent. I've been out with fine men before but usually after two weeks it's like, Oh, you don't have a brain. Now why didn't I notice that before? Or the guy will be intelligent but get him in bed and he only knows one position: You on the bottom, him on top. A drop of sweat dripping in your ear every ten seconds. And don't even get me started on the pseudointelligent pro-black types. "My sister, my sister. Mother Africa, I see you have bought into the white man's lie. You must understand that it would be a mistake for me to go down on you. I refuse to partake in the white man's nasty habits. I can't believe that you would disrespect your man by asking him...

Product details

• Authors: Renee Swindle
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.06.2000
• EAN: 9780440223764
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22376-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 174 mm x 23 mm