Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181263 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
When Jordan Greene arrived in New York from Tennessee, he was in culture shock. But he managed to keep the pace and stay in the race with a Wall Street job, a Queens apartment and a sexy girlfriend. Then he finds himself attracted to a white girl.'

From the Author
Thanks for the support and e-mail!
Well, they say the third times the charm. (Something like that.) I moved my story's setting to NY and Memphis, for a book, but the next will be back in Cali. Out in the Inland Empire, where "Sister, Sister" happened. Get ready for cameos by Inda and the crew!

For those who enjoyed "Friends and Lovers" it has been optioned by BrownHouse Productions, which is Whitney Houston's company. So, if everything goes the way it should (or it that the way I want?), it'll be on the big screen and you'll be center aisle laughing so hard you'll choke on your Raisnets and the paramedics'll drag you away.

On "Milk In My Coffee" --- hmmm -- the concept spawned from a conversation/suggestion with/from a friend that happened a few years ago. It was (and still is) a FICTIONAL (get it?) short story, but I went back and did the Dickey thang -- I drama'd it up big time. Enjoy. And if you haven't checked out my first two "Sister, Sister" and "Friend and Lovers", please do. (Oh, a small note: Chronologically, "Friends and Lovers" happens before "Sister, Sister." They didn't come out in the order they were written. So, if you're following Chiquita's story, that's the real deal. Sorry 'bout 'dat.)

Peace and blessings, eternal light to guide your way.END

Customer Reviews

Food for Thought
Having just read "Milk in My Coffee", I must say that the brother Eric Jerome Dickey has again written another awesome book! This deals with our perceptions of others in relationships and also what we automatically assume; it highlights the fact that we must never 'assume' anything with anyone....we could well just be wrong! There are controversial issues regarding black and white relationships that stimulates a healthy debate and also helps in identifying how we can without thinking, become ignorant if our opinion differs from someone else.

Jordan had to face up to his own assumptions of people in different types of relationships...the ones he had with J'nette, Solomon, his brothers and Kimberly. In dealing with it, he learnt a lot about people, himself, and came through a better and stronger person and was able to share that with others..
KEEP ON WRITING ERIC! You have the gift!

First time reader of Eric Jerome Dickey and I Loved IT!!
Being a sister that (I have to be honest) gets a little twinge when I see a "brother with another" I was first hesitant to read this book.. However I did and from the very beginning it hooked me.. I found myself feeling the character Solomon and his interaction with Kimberly.. I even put my guard down and said this couple is working out, regardless of all the "drama" they encountered. He wrote a book with the emotions of a woman in the character of the man.. I felt he realistically portrayed some how sisters react when they see a "brother with another". However, I loved it when he threw in the suspense, with the ex-husband situation, the betrayal of the best friend the loss of a job, the love of family, the realiness of the sister-n-law and his brother. Eric wrote real situations most of us can relate to.. Just when I had accepted the fact that this brother was loving this woman, he threw in the big surprise.. This book, caused a gamut of emotions for me.. I absolutely loved it.. And when the surprise was revealed in the end I silently smiled and said YES!! I am glad I picked it up and blocked out the hesitation and gave this author a chance.. I will be now be backtracking to read his other novels..

Brilliantly readable book!
This was my first book by Dickey- and I'm coming back for more! Great characters, characters you really warm to and a believable and inventive storyline. It's a book that'll make you laugh, cry and think. It's the story of black software executive Jordan and his sometimes surprising and sometimes heartwrenching struggle with coming to terms with his falling in love with a white woman. It also touches on the subject of racism - but a reversal of the usual roles: the racism of blacks against whites and against any black individual involved with a white person. More than anything though, with sensitivity, warmth, understanding - and always in an entertaining and highly readable way, Dickey affirms that the only sensible way of viewing a person is as an indivudual, not as part of a collective, be that racial or religious or otherwise. And if we fall in love, it shouldn't matter whether the person is black, brown, white, yellow, pink or blue- it's the person that counts. A simple truth we seem to forget too often and too easily. An excellent read!