Different Shades Friends Come In

A Novel

by La Tina Marie


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 9/24/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 264
ISBN : 9781403326249

About the Book

Vanay, Collette, Alexis, and Dana are anxious to make your acquaintance. Vanay, a mall employee, makes immature decisions causing constant upheaval in her life. Collette, a well-to-do college student, although grounded by her moral and spiritual beliefs, struggles with her sexuality. Alexis, the stylist, desires to have a salon of her own, but won’t make the necessary sacrifices. Dana, a part time waitress, prefers to date outside of her race, against her parent’s wishes. Subjected to the pressures of life surrounding college life, self-employment, and womanhood, these youthful women learn, sometimes painfully, the lessons life teaches. Experiencing many serious ordeals, drug addictions, pregnancy, marriage, and lastly death, four friends discover, through a desperate event, that real friendship does come in different shades.


About the Author

LaTina Marie Tunstall has been writing all her life. She knew from a very early age that she was born to write. Through good times and bad times, with partners and without, she wrote. Happy stories, sad stories, love letters, poems, and songs; she wrote. Tributes to family, friends, and teachers; she wrote. Tina, as referred to by family and friends, lost her mother when she was thirteen. She mothered and protected two younger sisters until they were grown, while looking to friends of her mother for guidance and support. Through those relationships, she has grown into a woman with knowledge on many phases of womanhood. With no formal training and only the desire to express her inner most feelings, Tina writes about her life experiences and those of others.