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Satin Doll
Satin Doll
Author: Karen E. Quinones Miller
Until that fateful moment when she was shot and left for dead, Regina Harris was living la vida loca with pimps and hustlers and using whatever money she had to get high and forget that she was living in poverty in Harlem. Now she's a college graduate and journalist who has turned her life around, living on the Upper West Side and hobnobbing wit...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743214346
ISBN-10: 074321434X
Pages: 320
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3.7 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I loved this book! I will quote one of the critics, Lillian Lewis, "A marvelous tale about not letting the past define one's future."
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Regina Harris has it going on. Drop-dead gorgeous, intelligent and a successful freelance writer, the sassy 26-year-old seems the poster child for African American young professionals.But what would her colleagues say if they knew Regina was once a professional shoplifter and career girlfriend? That she was shot and almost killed while hanging out with a drug dealer?
Set in Harlem and Philadelphia, Satin Doll tells the story of a woman living in two worlds, and feeling comfortable in neither. The lovely Regina sips cocktails in Greenwich Village with the literary elite one night, and goes barhopping with her Harlem homegirls the next. Theres Yvonne, who discovers the lawyer she is dating is married, but decides to steal him away from his wife. Tamika, who finds out the prison inmate shes been loyal to for three years has married a white woman while behind bars. And Puddin, a cocaine sniffing good-time girl who will snatch off her wig to fight at the drop of a hat.

But when Regina falls in love with aspiring politician Charles Whitfield, she has to choose between her two worlds -- and wonder if her shady past will come back to haunt her.
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about a woman who lives her life but doesnt forget where she comes from and finds a good man doing it


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