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Overview

Zena (short for Zenobia) Lawson honors all things African - art, culture, history. So when fortune hands her a twenty-year-old West African girl in need of temporary housing, of course Zena and her husband Lucius jump at the chance to help. To Zena, Ifa Olongo is an exotic beauty with enough haughtiness and grace for three royal families. Not to mention the daughter she never had. But as Zena's best friend Vy keeps reminding her, Ifa is no girl - she's a young woman with dangerous curves that any man would just love to skid his tires across." "But Zena, a former glamour queen herself, has problems distinguishing between glitter and real gold. For Ifa's name means life - and she'll acquire it...by any means necessary." "The ever-widening gap between Africans and African-Americans - and the strong but precarious link that bridges it...The unexpected peril of romanticizing our roots - and the foreigners who represent them...The importance of taking care of others - without sacrificing oneself...Kristin Lattany takes political correctness and Afrocentricity and turns them upside down.
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In her latest novel, Lattany tells the tale of a talented sista attempting to deal with her own success as well as the jealousy, deceit and heartache that comes along with caring for a younger, African woman she grows to love. Lattany touches upon the cultural differences and stereotypes, that still exist between Africans and African Americans.
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"Be careful what you wish for" is the lesson learned by a proud, hard-working, beautician in Lattany's (Kinfolk) latest novel. Zenobia Lawson, 49, owns her own hair salon, specializing in African-American women's styles, cuts and colors; she is happily married to Lucius and is a kind of mother figure in her group of women friends, called "The Divas." Zena and her husband, Lucius, are Christians, and believe in the moral imperative to "do unto others," so when a 20-year-old African woman, Ifa Olongo, needs a home for three weeks while she's applying for a visa extension, the Lawsons are happy to take her in. Childless Zena is also excited to have "a daughter" and is thrilled by Ifa's regal beauty, innocence and charm. Quickly, though, complications arise: Zena gets sweet-talked into buying Ifa pricey designer clothes and ends up with an astronomical phone bill. Despite all her support of Ifa, Zena displays little understanding of cultural differences: she forces the offended Ifa to wear deodorant, and recoils when she sees that Ifa has transformed the pretty guest bedroom into a "voodoo hut," decorated with a python skin and "what appear to be a small pile of human bones." Tensions rise, and when Ifa gives Lucius a massage and does a sexy python dance, Zena is suspicious of her guest's proclaimed Christianity. But Lucius defends Ifa ( "It's not her fault her family taught her pagan beliefs"), and exhorts Zena to convert Ifa. Lucius and Ifa predictably end up sleeping together and Zena freaks out, demanding HIV tests for everybody. Lattany writes in a chatty first-person voice, but when Zena attempts to describe the complex differences between African immigrants and American blacks, only a superficial exploration ensues. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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Winner of the Moonstone Black Writing Celebration Lifetime Achievement Award, Lattany explores the conflict between an African American couple and the young African woman they try to help. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780345407085
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 1/5/2000
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.33 (w) x 9.43 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Meet the Author

Kristin Hunter Lattany is the author of Kinfolks, Guests in the Promised Land, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Landlord, which became a motion picture, and a bestselling young adult novel, The Soul Brothers & Sister Lou. She received the Moonstone Black Writing Celebration Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in New Jersey.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2007

    Very interesting

    This was one of my favorite books I've read so far , and I've read alot .The author dips deep down inside of the main character Zena and she brings out alot of issue and real life problems we as women can relate to .

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2006

    NOT WORTH THE INK USED TO PRINT

    or the paper wasted to print this book on!!! There were numerous problems with this book--- the dialogue was forced and the writing did not flow. it was like trying to breathe underwater... Not to talk of the vicious sterotypes the author utilises to describe the antagonist -Ifa, the young african girl in taken in by a well-meaning african american couple. This novel is of no intrinsic value- for entertainment, knowledge or otherwise. Ms. Lattany owes me for the time i wasted reading this book. I would only recommend this book to showcase Ms. Lattany's ignorance nothing else.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 26, 2003

    enjoyable!!! 4 star

    i enjoyed this book. kristin is a great writer with an ear for entertaining dialogue. Zena was an interesting character who was sometimes a little too naive. Ifa was too funny for words as well a conniving little vixen. the stereotypes were a little heady but some of the ideals proposed were right on the money. Read it... you'll like it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2002

    Excellent read for bookclubs

    My bookclub read this book and from it we had fantastic discussion about the main character, her girlfriend, her husband, and the live-in African vixen that gave new meaning to snakes and masks. It was a good read, and makes a good read for someone looking to put down serious issues of the day. It's also very funny.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 8, 2001

    Very boring

    There were too many minor details in the first several chapters. After the first 70 or so pages it still did not hold my interest. I would not recommend this book. This book put me to sleep. I dont think I would read another book by this author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2000

    Kristen still keeping it real.

    As always Kristen jumps in with both feet, by touching a topic that real. This book like her others will hold you in it's grip with the turning plots and leave you thinking about how you do others in your life. It's touches on an issue that is sad but true. The relationship between Africans & African-Americans.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2000

    interesting and funny, but disturbing

    I enjoyed reading this book. Couldn't put it down all weekend. But I found the generalizations about foreigners disturbing. The book talks a lot about foreigners stealing our jobs, foreigners stealing our men, foreigners making life here miserable for the rest of us. But foreigners made America what it is. We're all foreigners from some place. On the other hand, the messages about being careful what you wish for and about not being naive when it comes to your home and those you love ring true. All in all, I enjoyed the book, but it certainly brought some stereotypes and generalizations into question for me. Who knows? Maybe that was the point!

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