Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
"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 story 'Hot Comb' is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming 'too white' in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In 'Virgin Hair', taunts of 'tender-headed' sting as much as the perm itself. It's...