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A Choice to Yield
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$18.95
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Angela’s world changed when a tall, dark, and handsome African American man spoke to her. He intrigued her. She was hesitant. Angela’s Caucasian circle thwarted her interest. Angela’s self discovery forced “A Choice to Yield,” for love or social acceptance.
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Customer Reviews
No Color
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07/10/2009
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Reviewer:
Nadine Cummings
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Laurence Cook, the author takes you on a journey of reality fiction that shows us the struggles of white men & women and black men & women and their relationships. Some of us dare to see NO COLOR in people, while others are fixated on it. Too many people are “hung up” on multi-racial relationships, and friendships with preconceived notions of borders or lines having to be crossed. Then there are those of us who have invisible borders or lines and when we choose to cross those, we are looked at and thought of as tainted goods and no other white man will be with us. The author magnificently writes how both sides and both sexes handle different situations, several trials and all kinds of people.
As you read the story you find yourself in one or more of the relationship scenarios, either feeling eyes staring or enjoying the view. As Angela, the main character, finds the man of her dreams, her perfect man, you are involved in the trials she endures with her current friends, family, people she doesn’t even know and most of all, herself. Angela fights all the beliefs that she has learned from her family and the society that she has listened to all of her life. Even her all-time best friend from college, Paula is the one person Angela knows she can always count on to give her support and the advice she needs to feel good about her decisions. But as Angela grows in her knowledge and broadens her horizons with new friends, black and white, she finds that Paula doesn’t always have her best interest at heart.
Laurence Cook, shows us how we as individuals, know what we want and desire….but how influential our family, friends, and society can be to have us change our dreams. When we allow other’s thoughts to make our decisions, we end up giving up on what we feel in our heart. Then there are those of us who won’t settle because we are not afraid to yield “our choice”. When we end up making our decisions through our thoughts and hearts, then the choice is ours.
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Another One Bites the Dust
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07/10/2009
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Reviewer:
Patte Garvin
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“Another one bites the dust!” was my first reaction upon beginning the first chapter of this intriguing book. As an African-American woman, I must admit that in the past, I was not always exuberant when I would encounter the “Jungle Fever” scenario crossing my path. As a matter of fact, I have had mixed feelings ( resentment, animosity, anger, envy- if the brother was a fine one and even jealousy in some cases) upon seeing an interracial couple together. After all, we sistas want our men for ourselves and we already know that the ratio of African-American women to African-American men is unbalanced. The last thing we need (or want) is Caucasian women stealing our men from under our noses!
However, in “A Choice to Yield”, the author Laurence Cook, is able to take you inside the inner chambers of the mind of the main character, Angela, and you actually feel what it is like to tread in the footsteps of a woman tormented by a choice she has to make. She becomes torn between following the “rules” of her friends and family – not crossing over to another race ; versus the aching desire in her heart and loins for a man that is “ forbidden fruit” according to her best friend. The turmoil increases as Angela attempts to determine what is the right thing to do.
For me, the epiphany was the realization that the same Caucasian woman that I had scorned many times in the past for daring to participate in an interracial relationship – was now the person I truly wanted to follow her own heart and soul and experience happiness that we all deserve to experience at least once in a lifetime.
I challenge every reader to dive into the complexity of one woman’s mind – and ride the waves of un-certainty and confusion. Dare to follow this woman’s journey through a land of racism, bigotry and discrimination, and rejoice when- after opening up her mind and being receptive to possibilities - she finally arrives at her Utopia.
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