Like a ray of sun that can warm your skin for a moment but can’t be captured, John the Baptist Wright has touched the lives of many women–heart, body, and soul. Now, in this enthralling new novel by award-winning author Sandra Jackson-Opoku, we hear from the women who gave Hot Johnny his heat.
Each woman has a distinct voice and her own point of view. Among them is Destiny, the damaged young woman he married, but cannot save; Lola Belle, the white lesbian with something to prove and nothing to lose; Tree, the college soulmate, whose first taste of tenderness came from Hot Johnny’s touch; Peaches, the prostitute who gave the boy his name and sealed his reputation; and Gracita Reina “Queen of Grace,” his great-grandmother, who holds the key to Johnny’s salvation. Each woman provides a piece of the puzzle that is Hot Johnny–the result is a captivating portrait of a complex man who is both saint and sinner, hero and villain, and all the shadings in between.
A deeply felt and emotionally involving tale, Sandra Jackson-Opoku has done nothing less than illuminate the secret places of a man’s soul–and created a powerful novel of destiny and redemption. . . .
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From the Back Cover:
“AN INTENSE NARRATIVE . . . AS HOT AS A FIRECRACKER.”
–Chicago Sun-Times
“DAZZLING . . . [A] BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL.”
–African Sun Times
“UNFLINCHINGLY HONEST.”
–Essence
About the Author:
Sandra Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist. The River Where Blood Is Born, her first novel, won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Fiction; her work has also earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazine General Electric Fiction Award for Young Writers, and a Ragdale Foundation U.S.-Africa Writers Fellowship, among other honors.
She lives in Chicago with her two children, Kimathi and Adjoa.
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- PublisherOne World/Ballantine
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0345435087
- ISBN 13 9780345435088
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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