New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Now living in a white, upper-class suburb of Houston - and feeling trapped - a former civil rights activist's life is shattered by the appearance of her estranged daughter - the product of an affair with a black professor nearly eighteen years earlier. A complicated story of love, relationships, race and privilege. 403 pp.
Condition: Fine in cream wrappers with silver lettering.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (book published as a trade paperback original. )
New York: HarperPerennial, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - "From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground--from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions--MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. . . a funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. Through deft storytelling and charming illustration, MariNaomi carries us through first love and worst love, through heartbreak and bedroom experimentation, as she grows from misfit teen to young woman." INSCRIBED on the first page where the author has drawn a cartoon balloon from her photograph and added the comment "Hi,…
New York: HarperPerennial, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - "From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground--from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions--MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. . . a funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. Through deft storytelling and charming illustration, MariNaomi carries us through first love and worst love, through heartbreak and bedroom experimentation, as she grows from misfit teen to young woman." INSCRIBED on the first page where the author has drawn a cartoon balloon from her photograph and added the comment "Hi, it's October 15, 2010. Yay! xoxo" Slightly oversized format. 331 pp.
HALF A HEART.
KISS & TELL: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22.
