Hot comb
Ebony Flowers
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- First edition
- Publication:
- [Montréal, Quebećbec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019
- Copyright:
- ©2019
Availability
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- 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."-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Hot comb
- Lady on the train
- Big Ma
- Fieldwork follies
- My lil sister Lena
- Spaniard
- Sisters & daughters
- Last Angolan Saturday.
- Author/Creator:
- Flowers, Ebony , author, artist
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Main Work:
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Place of publication from publisher's website.
- Creator Demographics:
- Americans
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
- Call Numbers:
- PN6727.F5869 H68 2019
- ISBNs:
- 9781770463486 (paperback)
1770463488 (paperback) - OCLC Numbers:
- 1053581791