Helena Andrews
On June 1st, 2010 HarperCollins will publish Helena Andrews hotly anticipated collection of essays, BITCH IS THE NEW BLACK. Told in her singular voice, BITCH IS THE NEW BLACK follows Helenasexy, single, and a self-described smart-asson her trip from kidnapped daughter of the town lesbian to hotshot political reporter who cant remember a single senators name.Helena now writes a weekly column called Single-Minded on being free, single and disengaged for TheRoot.com.Greys Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes, called BITCH outrageously funny and heartbreakingly honest. Kirkus Reviews wrote that Andrews is a scathingly witty authorwith wry astuteness. I didnt like this book. I loved it, said Angela Nissel, best-selling author of Mixed and The Broke Diaries.I slept with it and pretended it was my husband since statistics say Ill probably be a spinster. I'm giving copies to all of my girlfriends who have crazy families and love lives that revolve around IM."
“By then she was the only one of her seven siblings without a child and quickly approaching thirty (which is like forty when you adjust for inflation since 1980).”
“What does 'wifey material' even mean when someone at the Washington Post thinks the headline 'Marriage Is for White People?' is okay? The article, of course, became another one of Gina's and my obsessions. The Washington fucking Post was against us now.”
“I don't think Michelle [Obama:] minds bein our new muse. I think she gets it. We little brown girls - drunk off The Cosby Show, sobered up by life, and a little suicidal - we need her.”
“Crazy astraunaut ladies and fabulous twenty-something black chicks are in the same spaceship: they're aliens among men blasting off to who knows where.”
“Two thousand and seven was the year we officially entered our late twenties - the starting line of the death march to menopause.”