The future has a past
Subtitle: stories
By: J. California Cooper.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: African-American women -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Maisha, the narrator of "A Shooting Star," chronicles the much-gossiped-about affairs of her friend Lorene and laments her inability to differentiate between sex and love. In "The Eagle Flies," Vinnie, a single mother, devotes herself to her selfish children, letting opportunities for her own happiness slip by until it is almost too late.

In "A Filet of Soul," Louella, raised to believe she is ugly and undesirable, falls for a fast-talking con man and loses her small inheritance and her dignity; but his betrayal turns out to mark the beginning of a love affair - and a life - Louella had never imagined she would find. In the final story of this collection, "The Lost and the Found," Lorene waits and waits for the philanderer she loves to marry her, almost letting the love of a good man pass her by."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: A shooting star; title: A fillet of soul; title: The eagle flies; title: The lost and the found.