If This World Were Mine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385486569)

Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation. The four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of one another. Yolanda, a media consultant, keeps it going on with a no-nonsense attitude and independence that are balanced by the theatrics of Riley, a former marketing executive whose marriage has reduced her to a "kept woman with kids." Computer engineer Dwight's anger at the world is offset by the compassion of Leland, a gay psychiatrist whose clients make him question why God ever invented sex.

But after five years, the once-strong bonds of friendship are weakening, and the group must handle challenges of work, lost love, and a stranger in their midst. As the group members confront their true feelings toward each other, resentments and long-held secrets surface, and the stability of the group begins to disintegrate. Is their past friendship strong enough to survive the future?

Author: E. Lynn Harris
ISBN-10: 0385486561
ISBN-13: 9780385486569
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1998
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.73d