Big Girls Don't Cry

Connie Briscoe, Author One World $14 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-41362-8

PW praised this ""empathetic portrait"" of a woman struggling to navigate the rift between black and white America and resolve issues of work and love. (July)

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