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In Home Repairs, we come to know Austin McMillan through the pages of his journal, a frank, funny, often overheated self-portrait of a privileged young black man who is obsessed with women. We first meet him at an elite prep school, secretly mortified because at the ripe age of sixteen he has yet to kiss a girl. Wondering where he's gone wrong, he sits down to chronicle his passions, From his first kindergarten crush to the teenage sirens who now overwhelm his dreams. Though his list grows as he moves on to the Ivy League, the lessons of experience prove all too elusive: a smile still rockets…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1993Simon & Schuster · 332 pages · 9780671769246
- Other · English · 1993Washington Square Press · 332 pages · 9780671890704
FictionMan-woman relationshipsFiction, generalMan-woman relationships, fiction





