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  • Published: 15 June 1998
  • ISBN: 9780385486569
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $38.00

If This World Were Mine

A Novel




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?

  • Published: 15 June 1998
  • ISBN: 9780385486569
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $38.00

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