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Hot Comb

By Ebony Flowers
Edition

Paperback

Publisher Drawn & Quarterly Imprint Drawn & Quarterly ISBN

9781770463486

Awards and Honors NPR’s Book Concierge - 2019

Hot Comb

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9781770463486J
CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS

Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Illustrations/Images: Nudity/Partial Nudity,Language: Strong Language,Violence: Domestic/Physical Abuse

Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In “Virgin Hair,” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. “My Lil Sister Lena” shows the stress of being the only black player on a white softball team. Lena’s hair is the team curio, an object to be touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s need for hair relaxers and products. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page.

Black-and-white illustrations.
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