Title: Scenes from a sistah
First published: 1997
Description: Serious, striving, upwardly mobile executive Misty Fine almost has it together. She manages millions of dollars in real estate and dazzling executive opportunities with knockout savvy - but hasn't quite figured out how to get the real deal from the men in her life. Her lifelong friend Reesy Snowden is brilliant, up-front - and anything but career-minded.

To avoid her wealthy parents' overwhelming expectations, Reesy is perfectly happy careening between underwhelming jobs by day - and exotic dancing by night. In a very '90s world where success doesn't always mean security and Mr. Right is otherwise engaged - or worse - Misty and Reesy know they can always count on each other to tell the truth and "manage the damage" as only they can.

But when Misty gets the promotion of a lifetime, and hires Reesy hoping to give her some career direction, neither one is ready for the consequences or their hidden conflicts. And each must decide for herself what they value most - even as they redefine their relationship and their lives in ways both unexpected and hilarious.
Subjects: Friendship, African American women, Fiction, Afro-American women, Fiction, general, Florida, fiction, Fine, misty (fictitious character), fiction, African americans, fiction, Fort lauderdale (fla.), fiction, Snowden, reesy (fictitious character), fiction
Places: Fort Lauderdale (Fla.)