First Fridays defy the stars

First Fridays defy the starsA bright new talent in African American fiction returns with her second novel, filled with smarts, sass, and sex . . . Naja's on a nine month countdown for her baby, but not the kind you'd expect. Naja's baby is an Internet cafthe entrepreneurial dream she's been pursuing secretly while working in a St. Louis office. When she's laid off, Naja finds herself looking for new ways to network; at her best friend's suggestion, she attends a First Fridays

a more thoughtful probing into the sciences

'in the still

you can let go of any unwanted patterns of emotions

The Ivory Tomb

But what he really thought

they scale 600 feet up to the 1

What makes these words different is how they changed the world and changed peoples' lives

to what he hails as the sublime dark trilogy of the 1980s (Blue Velvet

of pausing

someone in America faces a crisis

Lucy and Tom Riles tackle relatable topics such as: Is bringing a toaster oven to a 5-star resort tacky or genius

and serious scholarship into a book that will draw comparisons not just to recent memoirs by Dave Eggers and Martin Amis but to forebears like Nabokov's Speak