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LaShondra Smith has a successful career as a school administrator, a supportive family, and a strong personal walk with God that gives her the confidence to face anything. She wants only one thing: a man. Make that a strong, sensitive, African American, Godly man, like Boaz in the Bible.
LaShondra faces many trials in her job where she is known to show favoritism to black students and come down harsh on white students, and when she refuses to hire a white teacher even when their qualifications exceed the other applicants. Her supervisor yells at her for her for her racial discrimination, but LaShondra doesn’t see it that way. After all, all white folk are bologna-fryin’, no-shoes-in-the grocery-store-wearin’, wanna-be-black-actin’, Ebonics-fakin’, nose-up-turnin’ people that burn her up.
During career days at the school, LaShondra meets an engineer named Stelson Brown—caring, conscientious, and endowed with an intelligence and sense of humor as devastating as his looks. He’s the answer to LaShondra’s prayer—except for one detail. He’s white. And now LaShondra is faced with all the prejudices and attitudes she never even thought about. And what about her friends and family’s reaction? Will LaShondra be able to look beyond the color of a person’s skin to find love?
BOAZ BROWN is a very well-written chick lit that the reader can’t help but get interested in. However, for white readers, some of the phrases used in the book could be extremely disturbing. African American readers would probably be able to relate a little better to some of the scenes in the book. I found it very hard to get to like LaShondra. In fact, I hoped she’d be fired for her discrimination against white students. I did like Stelson, and I hoped that he’d look further and discover that LaShondra wasn’t the woman for him—he was too good for her, in my opinion.
If you like chick lit and don’t mind reading about the challenges of an interracial relationships then you might enjoy BOAZ BROWN.
Reviewed by Laura V Hilton
for The Road to Romance
June 21, 2004
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