Description
Here is New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's debut novel, a celebration of Black sisterhood hailed by Essence as one of the "50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years".
Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are three women looking for love in Los Angeles. Valerie became the perfect wife to please her husband, Walter, whose football career has gone nowhere--along with their marriage. Then she meets Daniel. Valerie's divorced sister, Inda, has Raymond, who has a hot body, smooth moves--and another girlfriend on the side. Now Inda's scheming to get even. After telling her last boyfriend to hit the road, Chiquita takes up with Thaddeus, Inda and Valerie's irresistible brother. Has Chiquita finally found a good man? Sexy and in-your-face, Sister, Sister depicts a modern world where women may have to alter their dreams, yet never stop embracing tomorrow. "Brims with humor, outrageousness, and affection."--Publishers Weekly
Author: Eric Jerome Dickey
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 12/01/1997
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780451188021
ISBN10: 0451188020
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | Romance | African American & Black
- Fiction | Romance | Contemporary
Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are three women looking for love in Los Angeles. Valerie became the perfect wife to please her husband, Walter, whose football career has gone nowhere--along with their marriage. Then she meets Daniel. Valerie's divorced sister, Inda, has Raymond, who has a hot body, smooth moves--and another girlfriend on the side. Now Inda's scheming to get even. After telling her last boyfriend to hit the road, Chiquita takes up with Thaddeus, Inda and Valerie's irresistible brother. Has Chiquita finally found a good man? Sexy and in-your-face, Sister, Sister depicts a modern world where women may have to alter their dreams, yet never stop embracing tomorrow. "Brims with humor, outrageousness, and affection."--Publishers Weekly
Author: Eric Jerome Dickey
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 12/01/1997
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780451188021
ISBN10: 0451188020
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | Romance | African American & Black
- Fiction | Romance | Contemporary
About the Author
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961-2021) was the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, as well as a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther. His novel Sister, Sister was honored as one of Essence's "50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years," and A Wanted Woman won the NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in 2014. His most recent novels include The Blackbirds, Finding Gideon, Bad Men and Wicked Women, Before We Were Wicked, The Business of Lovers, and The Son of Mr. Suleman.