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SATIN DOLL

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER BY KAREN E. QUINONES MILLER

Trade Paperback edition (July 2002)

Hardcover edition (July 2001)

Glamorous and successful Regina Harris has a colorful history. Born and raised in Harlem, she was orphaned while a young teen and inherited the job of sole provider for an infant niece. She tried to get a legitimate job, but found no one interested in hiring a 13-year-old who said she was 18, and looked 11. She’s finally forced into a life of crime in order to survive.

But when she’s shot, and almost killed, while hanging out with a cocaine dealer, Regina turns her life around. She goes away to school, graduates from college, and begins a successful journalism career.

But still, she can’t quite get Harlem out of her blood, and she struggles to deal with two worlds -- feeling comfortable and alienated in both. She sips cocktails with the literary elite at Rockerfeller Center one night, and goes barhopping with her homegirls the next.

There’s Yvonne, who discovers the lawyer she’s dating is married, but decides to steal him away from his wife. Tamika, who finds out the prison inmate she’s been loyal to for three years has married a white woman while behind bars. And Puddin’, a cocaine sniffing good-time girl who will snatch off her wig to fight at the drop of a hat.

Then one night Regina meets, Charles Whitfield, a handsome, but snobbish upper-middle class young man from Philadelphia, and must worry, for the first time, whether the unveiling of her past could be her undoing.

READ WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SASSY NEW NOVEL SATIN DOLL

“Miller is to be commended for revisiting her self-published paperback for hardcover distribution. [Satin Doll] is a marvelous tale about not letting the past define one’s future. Lillian Lewis, Booklist

“Miller has mastered the art of using conversation to bring her characters alive and give them their own distinct personalities . . . an inspirational, gutsy story with a tough and endearing main character . . . .” Carmela Thomas, The Phila. Tribune

“. . . a real page turner! You won’t want to put it down . . . . It’s about wanting more, getting it, and finding sometimes that the brass ring is just that -- Brass. A great book club choice.” Jenice Armstrong, The Philadelphia Daily News