Other People's Skin: Four Novellas

Led by bestselling author Tracy Price-Thompson, Other People's Skin is a collection of four novellas by four leading African American women writers that acknowledges, examines, and conquers the skin and hair topic among African American women.

In Other People's Skin, Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, along with fellow authors Elizabeth Atkins, and Desiree Cooper, take on one of the most controversial topics within the African American community: the self-hatred caused by intraracial prejudice and the ongoing obsession with skin tone and hair texture.

It begins with TaRessa Stovall's My People, My People, in which a successful advertising executive acquires firsthand knowledge of prejudice when her clients insist on using light-skinned rather than dark-skinned models. Next comes Tracy Price-Thompson's award-winning story Other People's Skin, a tale set in 1970s Louisiana, where a dark-skinned young woman must come to terms with the bigotry of her light-skinned family. New Birth, by Desiree Cooper reveals the intense roles that money, class, and skin color play in the intraracial relationship between Catherine, a wealthy, light-skinned lawyer, and Lettie, her dark-skinned house cleaner. Finally, Elizabeth Atkin's Take It Off tells the story of a biracial girl who hides her coarse, braided hair from her friends at a mixed-race university in Detroit.

Other People's Skin is the most innovative and varied anthology of sisterhood and unity to date. Each novella entertains, challenges, and, most important, offers healing to the reader--no matter what her race, skin tone, or state of mind.

Author: Tracy Price-Thompson
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 10/02/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781416542070


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2007 pg. 957
Ebony 12/01/2007 pg. 34

About the Author
Tracy Price-Thompson is a speaker, novelist, editor, retired United States Army Engineer Officer. She is a national bestselling author of nine novels including, Other People's Skin, My Blue Suede Shoes, Black Coffee, Chocolate Sangria, A Woman's Worth, Knockin' Boots, Gather Together in My Name, and 1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E. Tracy is a highly decorated Desert Storm veteran who graduated from the Army's Infantry Officer Candidate School after more than ten years as an enlisted soldier. A Brooklyn, New York native who has traveled extensively and lived in amazing places around the world, Tracy now lives in Hawaii with her husband and several of their six children.