Milk in My Coffee
Kindle Edition
Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · May 1, 2000
From Eric Jerome Dickey comes the New York Times bestselling book that stirred up controversy with its bold portrayal of racial identity and subtle understanding of sexual intimacy.
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- Who it’s for
- A lively, emotionally layered novel takes on racial identity and sexual intimacy with a sharp edge.
- Themes
- Racial identity, Interracial romance, Sexual intimacy
- Genres
- Multicultural & Interracial Romance, Black Romance, Romance Erotica
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From Eric Jerome Dickey comes the New York Times bestselling book that stirred up controversy with its bold portrayal of racial identity and subtle understanding of sexual intimacy. Jordan Greene is in culture shock when he arrives in Manhattan from his Tennessee hometown. Still, he manages to keep the pace and stay in the race, with a Wall Street job, a Queens apartment, and a very sexy girlfriend named J'nette.
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But when Jordan meets Kimberly Chavers, what starts as a shared cab ride turns into something more. This girl is funny, fiesty, fine...and white. And for a man with Malcolm X's picture hanging on his office wall, that's a definite problem.... This brightly entertaining and emotionally complex novel demonstrates why Eric Jerome Dickey was “one of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century” (The New York Times).
Identity and Intimacy
A lively, emotionally layered novel takes on racial identity and sexual intimacy with a sharp edge.
Come here for
- The friction between a Wall Street life and questions of racial identity
- Romantic entanglements with humor and emotional complexity
Expect
- A Manhattan-set story shaped by culture shock and complicated attraction
- A bold, sometimes controversial treatment of intimacy
Where it sits
| Multicultural & Interracial Romance | 71% |
|---|---|
| Black Romance | 34% |
| Romance Erotica | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Romance
- Black Women's Fiction
- Black Romance
- Authors
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- May 1, 2000
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Racial identity · Interracial romance · Sexual intimacy
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Romance