Love Story Black

This "thoroughly engaging" third novel by the author of Beetlecreek ("[a] quiet masterpiece" — Kirkus Reviews ) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the subject of his writing assignment. Edwards, a freelance writer and Black Studies professor at a small college in New York City, is assigned a story for New Black Woman magazine: a profile of Mona Pariss, an aging former singer whose popularity in Europe once rivaled Josephine Baker's. With his cre