 | | | | | | Big Girls Don't Cry | | Item Specifics - Fiction Books | | | Author: | Connie Briscoe | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Harpercollins | | Edition: | 1 | | | ISBN-10: | 0060172770 | | Category: | Literature, Modern | | | ISBN-13: | 9780060172770 | | Sub-Category: | -- | | | Publication Year: | 1996 | | Condition: | Used | | | Special Attributes: | 1st Edition | | | | | | |
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| Synopsis | Naomi Jefferson thinks she is immune from the horrors of racism in her middle class community. Her world is turned upside down when her brother is killed on his way to a civil rights demonstration, her lover betrays her, and cocaine begins to control her. Then her brother's illegitimate teenage son enters her life, and makes her own problems seem trivial.
| | Size | | Length: | 376 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in. | | Width: | 6.5 in. | | Thickness: | 1.5 in. | | Weight: | 24.0 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | In her eagerly-awaited second novelBig Girls Don't Cry, bestselling author Connie Briscoe (Sisters and Lovers) examines the issues faced by a young black woman determined to be successful both professionally and romantically. Growing up in a loving and supportive middle-class family in Washington, DC, in the '60s, Naomi Jefferson worries about what to wear, her bra size and meeting boys, and she has dreams of one day opening her own clothing store. While she knows racism is a problem (occasional brushes with the uglier side of people don't let her forget it), Naomi is, at heart, just like any other teenage girl. All of that changes when Joshua, Naomi's older brother, is killed in an accident on his way to a civil rights demonstration in Chicago. Racism becomes a personal issue, and Naomi decides that she needs to help bring about changes in the system. At college in Atlanta, she becomes immersed in politics, organizing protests and butting heads with school administrations as well as with her boyfriend, who isn't too friendly to the cause. Disillusioned by authority figures and betrayed by the man she loves, Naomi returns home, confused about the world and her place in it. Witty, sensitive, bittersweet and triumphant, Big Girls Don't Cryis a compelling portrait of a woman who refuses to compromise her standards -- cloudy as they may be at times -- in her quest for satisfaction. In Big Girls Don't Cry, Briscoe has created a heroine and a story to which any woman who has faced the frustrations of glass ceilings, the pain of loss and sacrifice and the perils and pleasures of love will immediately relate.
Naomi Jefferson was born into a comfortable world only occasionally marred by racism - even when she is called a nigger after wandering into the wrong neighborhood, she learns not to let it touch her too deeply. As a teenager in the 1960s, her biggest concerns are when she'll give up her virginity and if you really can't get pregnant the first time, like her friends tell her. But when her adored older brother, Joshua, seemingly the family's chosen one who is destined for greatness, is killed in a tragic car accident on his way to a civil rights demonstration, the rift between black and white America suddenly becomes personal. In an attempt to live up to Joshua's example, Naomi immerses herself in 1970s campus politics. But instead of finding herself, she loses her sense of who she is. She's unsure how to negotiate her way through a world where brothers die for no good reason and the one man she depends on most betrays her with another woman. Slapped in the face with such harsh realities, Naomi makes a decision: Politics are useless, romance is hopeless, and what she really needs is a career. But work and success in the 1980s aren't all they're cracked up to be, particularly since the promotions keep going to the white guys. Just when Naomi starts to think that the only person she can depend on is herself, two people walk into her life who make her believe once again that anything worth having is worth fighting for.
| | Industry reviews | "Briscoe, a talented writer, is not afraid to take on serious concerns: racism, the glass ceiling, the importance of personal responsibility."
Washington Post Book World - Emily Listfield (04/28/1996)
"A sweeping, modern-day fairy tale minus the wicked stepmother...Briscoe adroitly weaves Naomi's coming-of-age story and her search for true love with subplots that show the impact of the Civil Rights Movement; the struggles of women and blacks to crack corporate America's glass ceiling; and the melodrama of middle-class black families dealing with illegitimacy, painful losses, and other traumas."
Quarterly Black Review of Books - Elsie B. Washington
"...[S]pans 22 years in the life of Naomi Jefferson, an African American woman trying to find her way in the world....It can be read in its entirety on the beach or gone through a few pages at a time before falling asleep. Briscoe has written an unabashedly sentimental book that may not be great literature but that contains an infectious hope and optimism."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Erika Taylor (06/01/1996)
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