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His Insignificant Other.


by Karen V. Siplin The Free Press, June 2002 $23.00, ISBN ISBN
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 0-743-22278-4

With temperatures soaring to 100 degrees, a day at the beach is in order. All that's left to decide is what to bring to read. His Insignificant Other may be just what you're looking for Looking for

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. It's a shot of Bridget Jones's Diary mixed with a twist of The Best Man.

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. Her closest friends are a quartet of shadowy never-quite-filled-out characters made up of a sexy dreadlocked waiter, a therapy-dependent professor and a white couple. Barely older than her students, Casey is mildly jealous of them and their youthful freedom, yet frustratingly unsure of her own next step.

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, her first real boyfriend, is threatened when his beautiful ex-girlfriend, Mali, unexpectedly reappears on the scene. Determined to keep her man, Casey makes one particularly poor decision that triggers a string of misfortunes that force her to consider why her relationship endures more from fear of being single than anything else.

Content to behave as though life is one multicultural episode of Melrose Place, none of Siplin's characters are as full-bodied as the alcohol they consume. They are, for the most part, catty cat·ty 1  
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, self-absorbed, financially solvent and attractive. Random characters conveniently drop in to offer advice and just as conveniently exit, stage left, after inspiring some life-altering change.

While it does little to distinguish itself from other single-sister-drama novels, His Insignificant Other contains all the right ingredients to distract you from your own daily goings-on. And sometimes, that's exactly what the doctor ordered.

--Zakia Carter is a writer and the founder of coloredgirls.com.
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Publication:Black Issues Book Review
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Date:Jul 1, 2002
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