A small midwest town at Christmas time...A high school reunion...Buried ghosts and repressed passions resurface from the past of Afro-American Virginia Kelly.
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From Publishers Weekly:
A rollicking story, part murder mystery, is sparked by Virginia Kelly's return to her midwest hometown for Christmas and a high school reunion. Confrontations with family and friends start peeling back the past and the homophobic, hypocritical veneer coating the town. Virginia is African American, sexy and gay. Her unresolved first love, Rosey Paschen, is white and an emotional danger zone when they meet again ten years later. Virginia discovers that others have also crossed into that zone, including her married friends Andre and Sandra. The couple sit in Virginia's parents' home like a "negro Norman Rockwell Christmas card" talking about the need for educated African Americans to have children to counterbalance the offspring of welfare mothers. Even though Andre and Sandra are upheld by Virginia's parents as role models of the life they'd like her to have, she soon cuts through their facade. Zigzagging between sleazy motels and malls filled with piped Christmas carols, Virginia also resolves some unexplained deaths. Baker's ( In the Game ) sharp wit and marvelous ability to read meaning in mundane domestic details add zest to her tongue-in-cheek style.
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- PublisherNaiad Pr
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1562800426
- ISBN 13 9781562800420
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages235
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