Wendy Coakley Thompson: 3 books

After twenty rejections of Christina’s poignant novel based on how she met her Jewish husband, she, on a martini-soaked dare, creates a Caucasian alter ego and writes a lily-white chic lit novel. When her agent actually sells the novel to a publisher, Christina’s common sense warns her to back...

1989.  Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.  An Italian mob murders a black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins.  That same night, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Lisa and Marc meet at a party.  Lisa’s black.  Marc’s Italian. They eventually hook up.  But interpersonal conflict, racist family and...

A failed engagement and a partnership in a new e-learning firm have led thirty-six-year-old Chaney Braxton from New York to Washington, D.C.  Orphaned as a child, and now betrayed by her fiancé, Chaney’s through dealing with things that die, leave—or wilt. In fact, she’s got a new mantra:...