Meanwhile, Naomi mostly focuses on learning about boys and sex. Joshua, seeing a pattern, becomes active in protesting with his friend Drew. Later, when the family attempts to eat at a Chinese restaurant, the owner tells them they can’t come in because they will make the white patrons uncomfortable. They describe how when they were young adults, the only options in America for them were teaching or a government job, but they recognize that their children will have more opportunities.Īs they drive to the first piano lesson, the mother gets lost and winds up in Virginia, where a couple of white boys call them a racial slur. Naomi and Joshua’s parents are hard-working people living in D.C.
Naomi, a twelve-year-old Black girl, loves reading Nancy Drew, though her mother is forcing her and her brother, Joshua, to take piano lessons to become well-rounded people.
Agent, Victoria Sanders.Big Girls Don’t Cry begins in 1963. Briscoe keeps the plot rolling, but her steamy story is still Peyton Place with a new color scheme. Meanwhile, Baroness Veronique Valentine, a rich newcomer, plots mischief behind the facade of a beautiful smile and charming manner. For his part, Patrick struggles to make a home for his teenage daughters, Lee, rough and street smart, and Julliette, a snob still hurt by her parents' divorce. Much to the social-climbing Jolene's annoyance, her ex-husband, Patrick, has become involved with Pearl Jackson, a successful hair salon owner.
High-ranking government employee Jolene Brown, one of Bradford's former lovers, feels she's too good for Brian, the office painter, with whom she's having an affair. Grand dame Barbara Bentley, a recovering alcoholic, is enjoying a new career in real estate and the attentions of her colleague, Noah Woods, who makes her wonder why she bothers to stay with her philandering husband, Bradford. Lust, greed and revenge continue to drive the well-to-do African-American residents of suburban Silver Lake, Md., in Briscoe's entertaining sequel to P.G.
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