Title: The cotillion
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.
Subjects: African American families, Conflict of generations, Debutantes, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Socialites, Fiction, humorous, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, African americans, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Young men, African American authors
Places: New York (N.Y.)