New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fourth book by this highly acclaimed African American novelist, whose first novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won the American Book Award for First Fiction. Dust jacket praise from Ishmael Reed and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1104506.