Keeping Up With the Jones

by Solomon Jones

Bernie Mac meets Dave Barry in Keeping Up With The Jones — a humorous look at marriage, family and life by critically-acclaimed novelist Solomon Jones. Taken from Jones’s award-winning column of the same name, Keeping Up With The Jones is filled with universal truths that promise to make readers laugh out loud.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Solomon Jones is an Essence bestselling author whose novels include The Gravedigger’s Ball, The Last Confession, Payback, Cream, Ride Or Die, The Bridge, and Pipe Dream. He has appeared on NPR and CNN Headline News, and is a contributor to short story collections including Philadelphia Noir and Liar Liar. Formerly a professor of creative writing at Temple University, Jones is an award-winning columnist whose work has appeared in Essence, Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Philadelphia Daily News. Jones, the creator of the Words On The Street Literacy Program, lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children. His next novel, The Dead Man’s Wife, will be published in October 2012 by Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan.

Reviews

[Zenobia Jordan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love his sense of humor. It was a good book.