Groove [Paperback]

Geneva Holliday (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2005

Geneva Holliday’s juicy novel brings a lighter touch to African American erotica, setting the sexual escapades amid the real-life folly and drama of four very different friends during one incredibly hot summer in New York City. This funny, sexy book has something for everyone!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This pseudonymous author takes a page from Terry McMillan with her title, but this novel is more Sex and the City or Sisters than Stella. First-person narrator Geneva Holliday (who gets the byline) leads a cast of four mid-30s New York singles in search of love. Frustrated by loneliness and puzzled by her son's erratic behavior, divorcée Geneva's weight spirals out of control. Ivy Leaguer Crystal suspects attentive boyfriend Kendrick is hiding something, and only after he moves in does she begin to understand the seriousness of the problem. Frilly, surgeryized travel agent Chevanese is evicted and agrees to watch gay friend Noah's house while he visits London (but has no intention of leaving when he returns). Noah, meanwhile, has begun to sleep with women. When Crystal's desperate attempt to earn money goes awry, all come together and share a dramatic, improbable catharsis. Holliday (our bet: Bernice McFadden) spices up the narrative throughout with light erotica. The ending is weak; the rest is by-the-numbers and perfectly enjoyable, with the various exchanges of gentle sisterly barbs and incidental descriptions of life as an adult single that ring very true.
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About the Author

GENEVA HOLLIDAY is the alter ego of an acclaimed literary writer who has penned five national bestsellers and been honored with the Zora Neale Hurston Society Award, the Black Caucus ALA Literary Award, the Black Writers Alliance Award, the Gold Pen Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (June 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767921143
• ISBN-13: 978-0767921145
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Women are like onions. We have many layers. Geneva Holliday is just one layer of Bernice L. McFadden.

Stay tuned for more layers.....

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Juicy Book, July 9, 2005

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Diaspora Chic "diaspora_chic" (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Groove (Paperback)

The four friends are vivid in this erotic novel. Geneva, who is the primary narrator, is an overweight, overworked and underappreciated single mother to a moody teenage son. She wallows in Ben and Jerry's, pizza and fried chicken knowing that her weight is out of control. She is being harassed by Miriam, an upper level employee at Calorie Counters for failing to keep up with the program. She and her friends have one heck of a summer before Labor Day.
Crystal, her upscale and successful friend, lives comfortably in Central Park. But her love life is another story. Her boyfriend, scion to a real estate fortune, is on drugs and she hasn't any idea that his addiction is deadly. Noah, the homosexual, is experiencing heterosexual tendencies. Thanks to Beyonce! He struggles to deal with his sexuality whichever way he can. And Chevanese, or Chevy as she is called, is a shopaholic. She can't pass up anything with a price tag. She has to have it. She is looking for a man who will take care of her but no one seems to stick around to support her spending habit. She meets a Nigerian and finds herself in a dilemma that leads to events that land all four of them in the hospital.
This book keeps you reading wondering what is next going to happen. It definitely did for me!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Geneva Holliday!!!!!!, May 2, 2006

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N. Powell "topazzz6" (Albany,NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Groove (Paperback)

I have always wondered what made authors write under psuedonyms. When I picked up this book I just thought it was a new author because I have never read anything by Bernice Mcfadden. This book was wonderful the characters were funny and you just felt like you knew them. By the time I finished this book I wanted to call up Noah (one of the character's) and say chile......I am anxiously awaiting Fever. I can't wait to see what Geneva,Chevanese and Crystal are going to next.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good to the last drop!, March 20, 2006

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Darlene D. Gamble "Diva Reader" (Plainfield, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Groove (Paperback)

Groove was just delicious from start to finish! You will fall in love with Geneva, Crystal and Noah. Ms. Diva, Chevy will work your last nerves but there is some redemption for her!

This book will make you laugh, cry, scream and at times feel like you just want to smack some of the characters! You will experience just about every emotion any human being can have!

I should have known that the book was going to be a humdinger since the author, Geneva Holiday is better known as Bernice L. McFadden! (Sugar and This Bitter Earth)

Read it , you will not be disappointed. Now it is onto "Fever" to continue all of the drama!!

A Forever Fan,
D Bullock-Gamble