An African-American Brooklyn woman finds that her light complexion brings her trouble as she falls in love with a black businessman fighting his own struggle against prejudice.
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A plethora of social issues smothers an interesting story about an African American counselor struggling with her racial identity who falls in love with a biracial student's father. Persecuted by other blacks for her red hair and light complexion, Patricia Gilbert hesitantly begins an affair with Morgan Baxter, a black man who seems impervious to her concerns. As the relationship develops, a host of problems that involve the sketchily drawn high school students shifts the focus of the story. Despite obligatory love scenes, the romance founders in a sea of societal ills thrown out for the reader's inspection. A fairy-tale ending fails to redeem a promising novel that loses momentum from the sheer drag of too many ideas and too little development.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Realistically deals with complex issues in well defined text,
By Bonnie B. Walker (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Significant Others (Paperback)
Boy! was I mistaken. I passed over Ms. Kitt's book too often and delayed enjoying a really good book. She shows true depth in her character development while dealing with complex issues like prejudice, identity crisies, bi-racial and uni-racil relationships and preferences, single parenting, teen pregnancy and drug abuse, peer pressure, corporate pressures and last but not least senuality between a man and a woman. I was thankful she refrained from referring to Patricia as "Red". Good job Ms. Kitt! I will certainly be looking for more of your works. Thanks for the refreshing change from the ho-hum romance/fiction work out there and for giving your readers "something to think about"; some substance.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SANDRA KITT HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Significant Others (Paperback)
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!! I was very impressed by this book. I thought that Ms. Kitt's "Color of Love" was great, but this topped that one by a long shot. I enjoyed reading the real life situations, and how Patricia related to the children in her school. I really enjoyed the way the relationship started and blossomed into a rich love. It made me want to fall in love with my husband all over again. My hats off to you, Ms. Kitt, and please, please keep up the good work!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Good, Consistant Read,
This review is from: Significant Others (Paperback)
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS was lengthy, yet, for a reason. The characters were fleshed out carefully and a story was developed nicely. My favorite was Kent, not because of his biracial heritage, but because of his struggle with himself to fit in somewhere...anywhere, for that matter. Kudos, Ms Kitt. A worthy accomplishment for anyone who has felt left out and want to join the human race on his or her best terms.
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