My Fine Lady: A Hip Hop Novel About Finding Your Voice - Softcover

Joe, Yolanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452286182 ISBN 13: 9780452286184

Publisher: Plume, 2005

Synopsis

A new novel about a super-talented underdog from the bestselling author of Bebe's By Golly Wow. Imani Holland has talent and hopes but no direction. Her father, who owns a struggling nightclub, sees ImaniÂ's future as a chance to fulfill his own failed dreams. Her boyfriend, Taz, is determined to become a mega-producer, with ImaniÂ's street rapping as his ticket to fame. But Professor Orenthal Hopson, who teaches in the music department of a historically black college, has his own designs on her: He struck a bet with a colleague requiring him to transform Imani from a hip- hop hopeful into a traditional jazz singer. Like a modern-day Eliza Doolittle, Imani finds herself caught up in a musical makeover that causes her to question who she really wants to become. As Professor Hopson begins to sweep her off her feet, she also has to decide whether to stand by Taz, the man sheÂ's cared about since childhood, or let herself fall for the dashing intellectual. Will fate be cruel or will it put her on a path to true love and the stardom she dreams of?

About this title

Synopsis:

A talented and ambitious young singer, Imani finds herself surrounded by men with their own interest in her singing career--including her father, who sees in her a chance to fulfill his own failed dreams; her boyfriend, Taz, who is determined to become a mega-producer; and Professor Orenthal Hopson, who has made a bet that he can transform her from

About the Author:

Yolanda Joe is the author of The HatwearerÂ's Lesson and the Essence bestsellers This Just In; BebeÂ's By Golly Wow; and He Say, She Say. A graduate of Yale University and of the Columbia University School of Journalism and a former news producer, she lives in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0452286182
• ISBN 13: 9780452286184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240