Hot comb

Flowers, Ebony (author,, illustrator.).

Record details

ISBN: 1770463488
ISBN: 9781770463486
ISBN: 1770463488 : PAP
ISBN: 9781770463486 : PAP
ISBN: 1770463488
ISBN: 9781770463486
Physical Description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Hot comb -- Lady on the train -- Big Ma -- Fieldwork follies -- My lil siser Lena -- Spaniard -- Sisters & daughters -- Last Angolan Saturday.

Summary, etc.:

"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."--