Hot Comb Ebony Flowers.

By:

Flowers, Ebony [author,, illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [Montrǎl, Qub̌ec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019Edition: Description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781770463486
1770463488

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Summary: "Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black womens 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 girls 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. Its 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Main	Jones Public Library	741.5 FLO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	3370000081328

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"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black womens 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 girls 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. Its 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.

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