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Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.
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1 edition- Other · English · 1971Trident Press · 256 pages · 9780671270728
African American familiesConflict of generationsDebutantesFictionMothers and daughtersSocialitesFiction, humorous, generalMothers and daughters, fiction