In a very straightforward and entertaining style Angela Lynch-Clare throws open and allows the reader to enter the gates of a newly upper class suburban Black community. Like any other arrivistes of any color or background, the chatter of these friends, while entertaining, is quite shallow. But Lynch-Clare, in showing this Black community in juxtaposition with its surrounding Whites, reminds us that interspersed with the similar superficialities, the Black families are faced with unique profound concerns that relate to raising families as minorities,in a world which often presents both overt and subtle prejudice. I thoroughly enjoyed this psychosocial novel, except for what seemed like a surplus of hot sex scenes, interjected by the author who is a sex therapist, in addition to being such a skilled writer.