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If This World Were Mine
Contributor(s): Harris, E. Lynn (Author)
ISBN: 0385486561     ISBN-13: 9780385486569
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1998
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Annotation: Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation. The four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of one another. Yolanda, a media consultant, keeps it going on with a no-nonsense attitude and independence that are balanced by the theatrics of Riley, a former marketing executive whose marriage has reduced her to a "kept woman with kids." Computer engineer Dwight's anger at the world is offset by the compassion of Leland, a gay psychiatrist whose clients make him question why God ever invented sex.
But after five years, the once-strong bonds of friendship are weakening, and the group must handle challenges of work, lost love, and a stranger in their midst. As the group members confront their true feelings toward each other, resentments and long-held secrets surface, and the stability of the group begins to disintegrate. Is their past friendship strong enough to survive the future?
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American - Urban
- Fiction | Romance - African American
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 97018795
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Great Lakes
- Cultural Region - Heartland
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
- Sex & Gender - Gay
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
 
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Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation. The four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of one another. Yolanda, a media consultant, keeps it going on with a no-nonsense attitude and independence that are balanced by the theatrics of Riley, a former marketing executive whose marriage has reduced her to a "kept woman with kids." Computer engineer Dwight's anger at the world is offset by the compassion of Leland, a gay psychiatrist whose clients make him question why God ever invented sex.

But after five years, the once-strong bonds of friendship are weakening, and the group must handle challenges of work, lost love, and a stranger in their midst. As the group members confront their true feelings toward each other, resentments and long-held secrets surface, and the stability of the group begins to disintegrate. Is their past friendship strong enough to survive the future?