Peoples & Cultures - Fiction

Getting to the Good Part

Name: Getting to the Good Part
Author: Lolita Files
ISBN: 9780446675482

by Lolita Files

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Overview

Reesy Snowden & Misty Fine have been friends since childhood. Misty's work life is thriving & she has found Mr. Right at last. Although Reesy's trying to be happy for her friend, she is troubled by this intrusion into the one friendship that has always come first for both women. Nonetheless, Reesy's dreams of a dance career have become reality & she is also seeing a man who might be a keeper. Unfortunately, her self-destructive tendencies threaten to destroy her, until true love & friendship save the day.

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Editorials

Eric Jerome Dickey

A thousand laughs a page.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Files's attempt at a Waiting to Exhale is an amusingly superficial but mainly unrealistic sequel to her first book, Scenes from a Sistah, about the same couple of flawlessly beautiful good-time "ghetto" girls living it up in New York City. "Corporate bigwig" Misty Fine has become romantically involved with and ultimately engaged to her boss, Rick, leaving her best "sistah," dancer Reesy Snowden, resentful and wondering what she wants for her own life. Reesy lands the lead in Black Barry's Pie, an off-Broadway musical, and her fantastically successful stage career is launched. Reesy's narration leans heavily on urban slang, which becomes tiresome. Her escapades are entertaining, though outrageously inconceivable, as she hops from one fine lover to another apparently heedless of AIDS, receives the gift of a Porsche from a boyfriend and even drunkenly flirts with Wesley Snipes--who just happens to be eating at the same restaurant. Reesy's relentlessly silly chatter reveals her as little more than shallow and mean-spirited: though Misty "was always complaining that she didn't have the high, round sistah booty I'd been strapped with, it apparently never stopped her from getting any play." The result is a perfunctory performance clearly angling for the movies. Author tour. Jan.

Library Journal

In this novel, feisty and candid Files Scenes from a Sistah brings back Reesy Snowden and her best friend, Misty Fine, to wend their way through more turbulent chapters of their lives.