Synopses & Reviews
IF THE FIST
BROWN SUGAR LEFT YOU WANTING MORE, THEN FEAST YOUR SENSES ON
BROWN SUGAR 2 AS 18 BESTSELLING BLACK WRITERS CELEBRATE A GREAT ONE-NIGHT-STAND
Brown Sugar
The first, bestselling Brown Sugar anthology was a literary and commercial success, winning the Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story Collection. Brown Sugar 2 brings you more smart, sexy, and original stories written by bestselling black writers you know and love writing about characters you'll recognize in places you'll know. These stories set the stage for seduction with a distinctly new flavor, and they are as insightful as they are sexy. Here are the real souls of black folk, and each story will take you there in more ways than one. Just be careful -- you might get more than your mind blown. Sexy and stimulating, playful and romantic, seductive and inspiring, Brown Sugar 2 is a must-have collection for every lover, as well as every lover of good fiction.
TANANARIVE DUE ZANE NELSON GEORGE JENOYNE ADAMS SHAY YOUNGBLOOD SANDRA KITT BERNICE McFADDEN TIMMOTHY B. McCANN YOLANDA JOE MICHAEL A. GONZALES PRESTON L. ALLEN LEONE ROSS SHAWNE JOHNSON REGINALD HARRIS KATHLEEN E. MORRIS WILLIE PERDOMO NICOLE BAILEY-WILLIAMS REBECCA CARROLL
Synopsis
IF THE FIST BROWN SUGAR LEFT YOU WANTING MORE, THEN FEAST YOUR SENSES ON BROWN SUGAR 2 AS 18 BESTSELLING BLACK WRITERS CELEBRATE A GREAT ONE-NIGHT-STAND Brown Sugar The first, bestselling Brown Sugar anthology was a literary and commercial success, winning the Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story Collection. Brown Sugar 2 brings you more smart, sexy, and original stories written by bestselling black writers you know and love writing about characters you'll recognize in places you'll know. These stories set the stage for seduction with a distinctly new flavor, and they are as insightful as they are sexy. Here are the real souls of black folk, and each story will take you there in more ways than one. Just be careful -- you might get more than your mind blown. Sexy and stimulating, playful and romantic, seductive and inspiring, Brown Sugar 2 is a must-have collection for every lover, as well as every lover of good fiction. TANANARIVE DUE ZANE NELSON GEORGE JENOYNE ADAMS SHAY YOUNGBLOOD SANDRA KITT BERNICE McFADDEN TIMMOTHY B. McCANN YOLANDA JOE MICHAEL A. GONZALES PRESTON L. ALLEN LEONE ROSS SHAWNE JOHNSON REGINALD HARRIS KATHLEEN E. MORRIS WILLIE PERDOMO NICOLE BAILEY-WILLIAMS REBECCA CARROLL
About the Author
Carol Taylor, a former Random House book editor, is now a freelance editor, writer, and editorial consultant. She is the editor of the bestselling Brown Sugar series, the first of which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and Gold Pen Award winner. Taylor is the “Off the Hook” relationship columnist for Flirt.com. She lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Art, for Fuck's Sake
Leone Ross
>If He Only Knew
Preston L. Allen
Transplanted
Tananarive Due
Sit
Bernice L. McFadden
The Most Beautiful Thing
Timmothy B. McCann
Lula Mae
Shay Youngblood
Mr. Good Lay
Zane
Next Time Take Flesh
Jenoyne Adams
LettersandRemembrances
Kathleen E. Morris
It's Never Too Late in New York
Nelson George
Counting Days
Shawne Johnson
Ella by Starlight
Willie Perdomo
Passing Through
Sandra Kitt
Simply Beautiful
Michael A. Gonzales
Zoe
Nicole Bailey-Williams
Prelude To...
Reginald Harris
Don't Stop 2 You Get Enuf
Yolanda Joe
Mr. Man
Rebecca Carroll
Contributors
About the Editor