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Desperate Black Housewives Write

© Dee Y. Stewart

Before, American society made women past thirty-seven disappear in tv, radio, cinema, on magazines, and in novels. But something has changed in the 21st century. Desperate Housewife's Nicolette Sheridan still has the goods. 50 something Oprah Winfrey still reigns supreme. 40somethings Darryl Hannah and Vivica A. Fox kicks butt in Kill Bill Volume II. Whitney Houston might just make a comeback. And Terry McMillan has a new bestseller for the summer.

American Women, especially African American Buppies(black upper class) haven't lost their buying power and their thirst for great fiction.

Harper Collins has re-released a 1980's classic, Let the Lion Eat Straw, about a woman's life and what matters to her most-family. McMillan's The Interruption of Everything http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...", Connie Briscoe's Can't Get Enough, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det..." Last year's summer success The Hamptons by Linda Dominique Grosvenor http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det... and Victoria Christopher Murray's Grown Folk Business http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/custome... all speak on one literary discovery-- Black women have more to say about life than finding a man and buying the latest Jimmy Choos.

The characters in these books have wealth, children, aging parents, and identity crises. Who are they now that they are no longer young? Who will they become without their parents or their children in tow? Who are they now that Affirmative Action has helped them achieve career success? Who are they when young men their sons age find them attractive?

Join our discussion board and lets talk about these books these summer. Also check out my blog at http://www.christianfiction.blogspot.com to learn more about Let the Lion Eat Straw and Grown Folks Business

Dee

The Hamptons

Grown Folks Business

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