The interracial friendship among four Yale University students is marred by their involvement in a heinous crime and cover-up, which follows them as they embark upon fast-paced, prestigious careers, with tragic results. A first novel.
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Melodrama mixes with murder in this banal first novel about Yalies on the rise in Manhattan. Kayo, Connor, Michelle and Elizabeth become best friends as undergraduates. Two of them are black: smart, ambitious Kayo, from Chicago's inner city, aims for a career in investment banking, while Michelle, a lit major from a family of Georgia preachers and schoolteachers, seeks a professorship. Connor, a white banking scion and alumni brat, struggles with econ grades while preparing for a job in the family firm, and Elizabeth, an aspiring journalist and daughter of a New Haven cop and an alcoholic mother, is a political activist. The cover-up of an accident in which they kill a bomeless man so strains their friendship that when one of them is murdered the following year in New York, the others are prime suspects. Joe uses wearisome clichds to explore such themes as corporate racism and the problems of interracial dating, meanwhile shifting the focus among her unappealing characters with formulaic regularity.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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MAGNIFICENT STORY LINE!!!!!!!!,
This review is from: Falling Leaves of Ivy (Hardcover)
Before i even start my review, I have to say ms joe this was the best mystery book i have read so far...the story was so breath taking that i couldnt wait to see what was going to happen next...i couldnt put this book down until i had finish it...i read it in 3 days...i loved all the main characters...Connor, Michelle, Elizabeth and Kayo...and with what had happened and how they handled it..wasnt really a good idea but when you have friends who all had stuck together for the good and the bad...then it is worth all the heartache and pain...a wonderful book to read and i hope that ms yolanda joe will continue writing more exciting suspense books...because i really enjoyed this book.
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great suspense,
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This review is from: Falling Leaves of Ivy (Hardcover)
This story will keep you on edge,you want be able to wait until getting to the end of the book to find out who is the guilty party.
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