Genevieve

by Eric Jerome Dickey Narrated by Richard Allen

Overview

Learn exactly why Eric Jerome Dickey was renowned for his novels starring "bold, smart women oozing sexuality and vulnerability" (The Atlantic) in this New York Times bestseller.

Genevieve is brilliant and beautiful. Her husband has a thriving career. Together, they have a beautiful home in Los Angeles. Together, they're crazy in love. Then one day a family tragedy brings Genevieve back to her Alabama hometown, back to a past she hoped her husband would never discover, and back to secrets shared by her sister Kenya-mysterious, teasing, and dangerously irresistible. Soon, Genevieve's husband will discover the truth about his wife and her family. Something he was never meant to know-and a desire he was never meant to explore.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Dickey (Drive Me Crazy) offers more sex-drenched melodrama with an instantly engrossing story about a couple whose marriage is tested by secrets both familial and sexual. Beautiful, independent "financial guru" Genevieve Forbes (n e LaKeisha Shauna Smith) and her husband, a medical research scientist (and the novel's unnamed narrator), are by-products of broken families. Genevieve ran away after suffering intolerable abuse by her murderous father and cruel grandmother, and the husband's rural Texas childhood was marred by his mother's death and a virtually absent, errant father. The death of Genevieve's grandmother Willie Esther forces both to return to her backwoods Alabama hometown for a reunion that stirs up old grudges, reopens still-painful wounds and sparks reckless familial infighting. While the narrator finds himself mildly amused by Genevieve's aging, folksy relatives, he's immediately salivating over Genevieve's hootchy-cootchy sister, Kenya. Their red-hot affair shifts into high gear just as Kenya's roughneck fiance, Deuce, pays them a surprise visit and more secrets about Genevieve's childhood leak. Dickey creates a smidgen of suspense around the survival of the couple's marriage and the revelation of various secrets, but that's hardly his main goal. What the novel lacks in plot it makes up for in explicit sex and hot-tempered fireworks. Agent, Sara Camilli. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Chick-lit sensation Dickey (Drive Me Crazy) presents this sizzling, sexy, downright gritty love story about a professional African American couple living the good life in Los Angeles until their pasts come back to haunt them. The narrator's wife, Genevieve (pronounced ZHAWN-vee-EHV), receives a phone message from Grandpa Fred that Willie Esther Savage is dead. An intense unveiling of ugly secrets ensues as the couple travels to Odenville, AL, to bury the woman who was the reason Genevieve changed her name, smokes "bush," and cannot be the sexually free woman the narrator desires. The narrator is shocked to meet the lower-class family he never knew existed, with its violent and crass ways. But when "sister" Kenya comes on the scene, he's overcome by her physical magnetism. This book reminds us that marriage vows are sacred and that sex is never just sex but has its consequences. However, it's Dickey's aplomb in granting his characters the freedom to hit, holler, and ride their steamy, explicit passions that will clinch this book's popularity. For all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/05.]-Jennifer Baker, Seattle P.L. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

From the Publisher

Praise for Eric Jerome Dickey and Genevieve

“[A] sizzling, sexy, downright gritty love story.”—Library Journal

“Instantly engrossing.”—Publishers Weekly

“[O]ne of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century.”—The New York Times

“Eric Jerome Dickey’s work is a master class in Black joy.”—The Atlantic

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172262432
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	05/10/2005
Edition description:	Unabridged

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