Erica Simone Turnipseed
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Novelist, Cultural Critic, Student of Life
Female
38 years old
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 9/20/2007
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Erica Simone Turnipseed's Interests
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| General | I'm drawn to people and things that energize the body, stimulate the mind, move the heart, and uplift the soul! | | Music | Digging many independent artists (see my friends), world music esp. from the African Diaspora, and a ton of songstresses from Nina Simone to Lizz Wright to India.Arie.... | | Movies | A Girl Like Me
A film by Kiri Davis, high school filmmaker.
Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves.
| | Television | When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts--this is serious | | Books | ABOUT HUNGER:
In Erica Simone Turnipseed's captivating follow-up to A Love Noire, heartache fans the flames of lust when freethinking Noire and Innocent, her urbane African ex, reunite.
Noire and Innocent are both having a thirtysomething crisis. His former identity as a successful investment banker and eligible bachelor has disappeared. A beleaguered graduate student, she's got no money, no man,
and no Ph.D., yet. A year of predoctoral research in Haiti leaves Noire drained. And a trip home to Cote d'Ivoire offers Innocent little more than intermittent sexual gratification. In the aftermath of 9/11, Innocent and Noire are back in New York City and find solace in each other's bed. But even that arrangement collapses under the weight of Innocent's revelation that he has unfinished business in Africa. For Innocent and Noire, patching together their unraveling lives becomes an exercise in hope and humility.
With Hunger, Turnipseed lives up to the promise of A Love Noire and has matured into a writer who fearlessly explores the intersection of sex, love, identity, and loss in a cross-cultural context. | | Heroes | God, my husband, survivors of the Middle Passage and Hurricane Katrina, folks trying to live a life of purpose
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Erica Simone Turnipseed's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Brooklyn, NY | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Writer, public speaker |
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Publishing - Writer - Novelist
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HUNGER, my second novel, is an ESSENCE BOOK CLUB pick (www.essence.com); my first, A LOVE NOIRE, won the 2004 Atlanta Choice Awards' Author of the Year. Visit www.ericasimoneturnipseed.com for more information on my books.
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