Peach Colored Lenses: Stories from the Desperate Beauty Salon
- ISBN-10
- 1615662561
- ISBN-13
- 9781615662562
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-02
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing
- Author
- Sassy Jonas
Description
Shiloh isn't like most little girls in Winchester, Georgia, but then, neither is Sally Mae. As the wealthy owner of the Desperate Beauty Salon, a beauty parlor with stories as humorous as its name, Sally Mae never refuses service to anyone. Perhaps this is why it should come as no surprise that she adopts Shiloh, a colored child, in the tumultuous and racially charged sixties. Sally Mae, better known simply as Mama, knows Shiloh is special. With a budding artistic eye and steady hand, Shiloh is picked to be plucked into the New York arts high society. However, Mama knows the rest of the world isn't as safe as home and struggles with holding her baby back or releasing her into the world. With the arrival in Winchester of a mysterious man, resembling Shiloh in more ways than skin color, all wonder what the future will reveal. Told through Shiloh's colorblind lens, we follow a close-knit Georgia clan of family and friends through bittersweet summers at The Big M Ranch, love in unlikely places, and friends as colorful as Mama's infamous red mane. With a society not quite ready to get past prejudices, confidences become more sacred than marriage vows, and friendships built on the front porch remain just as important as new lovesa "all painted through peach colored lenses."
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