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Hot comb / Ebony Flowers.
"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story 'Hot Comb' is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming 'too white' in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In 'Virgin Hair', taunts of 'tender-headed' sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking."-- Provided by publisher.
Item details
- ISBN: 9781770463486
- ISBN: 1770463488
- Physical Description: 180 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Place of publication from publisher's website. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Hot comb -- Lady on the train -- Big Ma -- Fieldwork follies -- My lil sister Lena -- Spaniard -- Sisters & daughters -- Last Angolan Saturday. |
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| Genre: | Cartoons and comics. Graphic novels. Autobiographical comics. Comic books, strips, etc. Comics (Graphic works) Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. Autobiographical comics. Graphic novels. |
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| Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
GRAPHIC NOVEL FLOWERS (
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| Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
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| Clayton County Library System: Forest Park Branch |
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| Clayton County Library System: Lovejoy Branch |
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| Clayton County Library System: Northwest Branch |
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| Clayton County Library System: Riverdale Branch |
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| Hall County Library System: Gainesville Branch |
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