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Book

Hot comb

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 F6447 (POW)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

[Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.

Physical Description

180 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story 'Hot Comb' is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming 'too white' in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In 'Virgin Hair', taunts of 'tender-headed' sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking."--

Notes

Place of publication from publisher's Web site.

Contents

  • Hot comb
  • Lady on the train
  • Big Ma
  • Fieldwork follies
  • My lil sister Lena
  • Spaniard
  • Sisters & daughters
  • Last Angolan Saturday.

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