{"product_id":"a-love-noire-9780060536800","title":"A Love Noire","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Noire, a hip, Afro-wearing Ph.D. student, walks into Brown Betty Books, her righteousness kicks in to overdrive amid the self-identified talented tenth who wear their double degrees and five-hundred-dollar shoes like badges of honor. And then Innocent, a well-heeled investment banker from C te d'Ivoire, West Africa, walks in and turns her on her head. Innocent seems interested in her -- but he's one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore meeting him, Noire shunned the bourgie world of black-moneyed cosmopolitans like Innocent, opting instead for socially conscious (but economically challenged) artists and urban intellectuals. Their mutual attraction blossoms into lust -- and eventually love -- but it lives in the shifting sands of personal beliefs and professional ambitions that are often at odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in New York City with jaunts to Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, \u003cem\u003eA Love Noire\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of an unlikely couple that transcends all they've known to learn the redemptive power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erica Simone Turnipseed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060536800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurnipseed, Erica Simone:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErica Simone Turnipseed's debut, \u003cem\u003eA Love Noire\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Atlanta Choice Author of the Year Award from the \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Daily World\u003c\/em\u003e. A philanthropist, Turnipseed founded the Five Years for the House Initiative, a fund-raising drive for the Afro American Cultural Center at Yale. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39921779212403,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5fe87f61-05e3-449c-9616-a5feab65adb9.jpg?v=1647351528","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/a-love-noire-9780060536800","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}