num_pages: 184
description: Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black womens lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded ammonia-scented hair salon. The titular story Hot Comb is about a young girls first perm - a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming too white in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. Realizations about race class and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories which are by turns sweet insightful and heartbreaking.Following in the rich tradition of Lynda Barry Ebony Flowers addresses the sometimes harsh sometimes devastating pangs of childhood ending. She pays beautiful homage to the struggle to find your place in a world that has such rigid rules about who we are Drawn &amp; Quarterly Publisher and acquiring editor Peggy Burns commented. Hot Comb explores the poetry in everyday life all the while centering the lives and stories of black women. Ebonys ease with the comics language is remarkable. Her black and white drawings as well as her colour collage work are both equally stunning.
language: English
title: Hot Comb
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly