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Hot Johnny (And The Women Who Loved Him)
by Sandra Jackson-Opoku

    Publication Date: Jan 02, 2002
    List Price: $12.95
    Format: Paperback, 320 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780345435088
    Imprint: One World/Ballantine
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Parent Company: Bertelsmann

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    Paperback Description:

    Like a ray of sun that can warm your skin for a moment but can’t be captured, John the Baptist Wright has touched the lives of many women heart, body, and soul. Now, in this enthralling new novel by award-winning author Sandra Jackson-Opoku, we hear from the women who gave Hot Johnny his heat.

    Each woman has a distinct voice and her own point of view. Among them is Destiny, the damaged young woman he married, but cannot save; Lola Belle, the white lesbian with something to prove and nothing to lose; Tree, the college soulmate, whose first taste of tenderness came from Hot Johnny’s touch; Peaches, the prostitute who gave the boy his name and sealed his reputation; and Gracita Reina “Queen of Grace,” his great-grandmother, who holds the key to Johnny’s salvation. Each woman provides a piece of the puzzle that is Hot Johnny the result is a captivating portrait of a complex man who is both saint and sinner, hero and villain, and all the shadings in between.

    A deeply felt and emotionally involving tale, Sandra Jackson-Opoku has done nothing less than illuminate the secret places of a man’s soul and created a powerful novel of destiny and redemption… .



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