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Living Color
Lilah Conway's comfortable life as an executive wife in a posh Chicago suburb is put in jeopardy when Rose Wilkins, her beautiful light-skinned black twin sister, asks her to join a dangerous game of deception
- GenresRomance
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First published May 21, 1987
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December 31, 2019
Lilah Conway is a devoted mother and wife living the simple life which is threatened when she receives a phone call from a lady that claims to be her twin sister.
When both ladies meet up without the knowledge of Lilah's family, she finds out why Lady rose(her twin) insists on keeping their meeting a secret, Lady rose is a huge television star and also a black woman. On account of the level of racism in that time and age in America, Rose knows that being related to a black woman will affect Lilah's family social standings, especially her husband's who is a president of a bank. Rose has had a tough time growing up and making it big in Hollywood and one of the gruesome memories is that of Graig Kimball, a huge icon in Hollywood, who raped and molested Rose when she was struggling as an actress and as a singer. Rose's life goes left when Graig Kimball reappears in her life and in her show which prompts her to enlist Lilah's help in a game of switcheroo deception that changes both their lives.
Living color for me, is really captivating, I like how the plot unfolds,the play of characters, and how the story Is told from different POVs. One huge issue I have with the novel is that; the plotting is implausible, I couldn't seem to wrap my head around how both lead characters can make the switch without anyone noticing, Rose is meant to be a black woman for crying in a bucket! The author made it seem as if it's only her black hair that qualifies her to be a black woman, put a wig on Lilah and viola! she's a black woman! and for Lilah's own husband not to notice the difference is just beyond me. Aside from that, I love the Hollywood scenery portrayed in the novel and the glimpse into the hullabaloo that goes on in the life of the "stars" and the Hollywood stars wannabes in Beverly Hills.
Her manner of prose is similar to that of Mary Higgins Clark in "Weep no more my Lady".
When both ladies meet up without the knowledge of Lilah's family, she finds out why Lady rose(her twin) insists on keeping their meeting a secret, Lady rose is a huge television star and also a black woman. On account of the level of racism in that time and age in America, Rose knows that being related to a black woman will affect Lilah's family social standings, especially her husband's who is a president of a bank. Rose has had a tough time growing up and making it big in Hollywood and one of the gruesome memories is that of Graig Kimball, a huge icon in Hollywood, who raped and molested Rose when she was struggling as an actress and as a singer. Rose's life goes left when Graig Kimball reappears in her life and in her show which prompts her to enlist Lilah's help in a game of switcheroo deception that changes both their lives.
Living color for me, is really captivating, I like how the plot unfolds,the play of characters, and how the story Is told from different POVs. One huge issue I have with the novel is that; the plotting is implausible, I couldn't seem to wrap my head around how both lead characters can make the switch without anyone noticing, Rose is meant to be a black woman for crying in a bucket! The author made it seem as if it's only her black hair that qualifies her to be a black woman, put a wig on Lilah and viola! she's a black woman! and for Lilah's own husband not to notice the difference is just beyond me. Aside from that, I love the Hollywood scenery portrayed in the novel and the glimpse into the hullabaloo that goes on in the life of the "stars" and the Hollywood stars wannabes in Beverly Hills.
Her manner of prose is similar to that of Mary Higgins Clark in "Weep no more my Lady".
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