The cotillion
Subtitle: or, One good bull is half the herd.
Publisher: Trident Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction; Conflict of generations -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Debutantes -- Fiction; Socialites -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.