New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - An absorbing novel about the disintegration of a black middle-class family within the sweet serenity of suburban Long Island. Scathingly funny and heartbreakingly real, totally unsentimental yet deeply moving, this book is wired with the on-the-edge rhythms of today in counterpoint with the age-old pulsing of the human heart. ISBN: 0-525-937552.