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ISBN13: 9781770463486
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: Jun 18 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Appeared on best of the year lists from The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, and more! Nominated for an NAACP Image Award and Winner of the Believer Book Award for Fiction!
Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's 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 Hot Comb is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming too white in the all-Black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In Virgin Hair, taunts of tender-headed sting as much as the perm itself. My Lil Sister Lena shows the stress of being the only Black player on a white softball team. Lena's hair is the team curio, an object to be touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing women's need for hair relaxers and products. Change your hair form to fit your life form and Kinks and Koils Forever call customers from the page.
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