Chocolate Sangria: A Novel (Strivers Row)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375757791 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his guilt over his brother’s death; and Jorge, an unscrupulous bad-boy thug who has no problem using what he’s got to get what he wants, until he comes dangerously close to getting scorched by his own flames.Fast-paced, suspenseful, and unpredictable, Chocolate Sangria explores the hearts of two lovers who get caught in the great cultural divide—and the devastating consequences of keeping secrets, telling lies, and betraying those you love.. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter&rsq
Alvin C. Romer said A savory and sensual take on blending racial awareness!. Chocolate Sangria By Tracy Price-ThompsonWith Black Coffee still on my palate hungering for yet another flavor to color my literary tastes, Chocolate Sangria has been dropped on the table. Tracy Price-Thompson makes the so-called sophomore jinx more an oxymoron than anything else with her latest offering. Gos. Yasmin Coleman said Savor the Sangria!. Tracy Price-Thompson, best-selling author of Black Coffee, delivers an intense and passionate new flavor in her sophomore novel titled Chocolate Sangria. It is a tale of friendship, family, love, secrets, betrayal and redemption.Juanita and Scooter were eternal childhood friends. Both were orphaned by their p. A Heart-Rending Novel of the Choices One Makes! LottaHoney Book Title: Chocolate SangriaReviewed by: LottaHoneyTracey Price-Thompson's Chocolate Sangria is a heartfelt novel of the haunting, skeletal secrets of families and the effects on their offspring.The novel's setting is in the tenements and projects of New York; the African-American community and the Latino co
From Publishers Weekly Price-Thompson's first novel, Black Sugar, was a frank contemporary romance about two soldiers who become illicit lovers. Juanita, a 20-year-old green-eyed, light-skinned black woman, has grown up in the Brooklyn projects, rejected by other girls because of her Caucasian appearance. Scooter also becomes smitten with Jorge, who seems to reciprocate but is much more calculating than Scooter imagines. Her best friend, Socrates "Scooter" Morrison, was an outcast himself because of "his falsetto voice and his wiggling hips." Riding the bus one day, the two have a life-changing encounter with a pair of youn