Do unto others / Kristin Lattany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lattany, Kristin Hunter, 1931-2008.

Contributor:

Mallett, Keith, jacket illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 265 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

New York : Published by Ballantine Publishing Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : One World, 2000.

Summary:

Zena (short for Zenobia) Lawson honors all things African -- art, culture, history. So when fortune hands her a twenty-year-old West African girl in need of temporary housing, of course Zena and her husband Lucius jump at the chance to help. To Zena, Ifa Olongo is an exotic beauty with enough haughtiness and grace for three royal families. Not to mention the daughter she never had. But as Zena's best friend Vy keeps reminding her, Ifa is no girl -- she's a young woman with dangerous curves that any man would just love to skid his tires across.

But Zena, a former glamour queen herself, has problems distinguishing between glitter and real gold. For Ifa's name means life -- and she'll acquire it...by any means necessary.

The ever-widening gap between Africans and African-Americans -- and the strong but precarious link that bridges it...The unexpected peril of romanticizing our roots -- and the foreigners who represent them... The importance of taking care of others -- without sacrificing oneself...Kristin Lattany weaves these elements into a novel crackling with wit, intelligence, and mischief -- and takes political correctness and Afrocentricity and turns them upside down.

Notes:

"First Edition: Juanuary 2000."

"Jacket design by Kristine V. Mills-Noble. Jacket illustration by Keith Mallett."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has 2 leaves of discusion questions, a color reproduction of the dust jacket illustrations and Anchor Books Reading Group Guide for The Invisible Life Trilogy by E. Lynn Harris laid in.

Banks Collection copy has has quotation copied on slip of paper with question conerning the quote laid in.

ISBN:

0345407083

OCLC:

42049265