New York: Hyperion Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page. Author's first novel - a story of growing up black and female in Chicago in the 1960's. The title is one of the sayings that bookish Stevie, who is determined to break away from the South Side, grew up with - along with the dictums that nice young women don't fight, talk trash, or sleep with boys. Cover praise from Dorothy Allison and others. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-796-0.