After a successful hardcover publication, appearances on the Blackboard and Detroit Free Press best-seller lists, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award, this fresh, funny novel is now in paperback, tackling the politics of hair and the modern black woman's quest for fulfilment. Soon to be a major film starring Halle Berry! Thomas offers painful but amusing insights into the politics of beauty, black culture and male-female relationships; her first novel places her in a league with Terry MacMillan'' - Booklist 'A smashing debut...lively and engaging' - Essence'