Embracing the Fire: Sisters Talk about Sex and Relationships

I believe we can all relate to sitting or lying around, talking, eating and discussing life with our sister-friends. Sometimes discussions lead to topics some would consider off-limits, but not these sisters! I could actually visualize the scene-preparing the food, inhaling the aroma, anticipating the taste, lounging with shoes off, feet tucked, sleeves rolled, drink in hand and everyone talking simultaneously, as I have been there and done that!Each of the women portrayed has a voice as they navigate through their conversations on sex, self-esteem, maintaining relationships, breakups, hopes and dreams for their children and the all too familiar one of the comparison of their lives as women to the lives of their mothers. Each women portrayed in this book is different from the other but they maintain a friendship that is supportive, spiritual, loving and downright fun. Embracing the Fire by Julia Boyd is an excellent, sassy, fast paced and thought provoking sister-friend book where life and truth are revealed.The topics will definitely lead to a lively discussion amongst any group of true friends. Reviewed by Dawn R. ReevesThe RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Girlfriend is back! Julia A. Boyd, author of IN THE COMPANY OF MY SISTERS, has returned with her sisters for a more focused and raucous discussion of African-American female sexuality and love relationships. Pull up a chair and break out the Haagen-Daas and prepare to laugh, cry "No she didn't...", and talk the ears off your best girlfriend when you put down EMBRACING THE FIRE: SISTERS TALK ABOUT SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS. In a comfortable, honest, and sometime pedantic voice, Boyd talks about her own relationships and the baggage women and men carry with them from relationship to relationship. However, whenever she begins to sound too much like a therapist, her sister friends wade-in to bring the discussion back to roundtable-free-for-all of opinion, life experience, and just plain silliness. The sister circle provokes thought, disagreement, concensus, and good fun. EMBRACING THE FIRE is for all women who have grown up with the idea of good woman and bad women and are trying to live lives that break through those and other stereotypes. Often in a lighthearted way, Boyd writes about some serious relationship and self-image issues among women of color. But the issues talked about are for sisters of any color who are into laughs, love, and self-reflection.