Recounts the author's experiences living in Spain as a young black woman, where she learns about the country's racial prejudices against blacks and falls in lov

“As far as neatly and efficiently chronicling African Americans and the importance of their hair, Hair Story gets to the root of things.” —Philadelphiawee

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Zora Anderson is a 30-year-old African American middle class, college educated woman, trained as a chef, looking for a job. As fate would have it, Kate and Crai