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Got to Be Real: Four Original Love Stories

by Eric Jerome Dickey, E. Lynn Harris, Marcus Major, Lynn Harris, Colin Channer · 2000

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Four popular African-American authors—E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Canner, and Marcus Major—come together in a bold new collection of original stories that explore the vast complexities of the human heart and the challenges of love in modern America. Original.

Genre
romanceromanceMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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