"This debut novel is an engaging and touching story of friendship and love which captures the racial tension of the 60s and 70s with some laugh out loud moments." Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption The 60s and 70s were a time of racial turmoil, political unrest, sexual freedom and the rise of feminism. This debut novel asks the question, "Do black and white people want to be friends?" The answer is provided by following the lives of three women from different worlds who meet in college...