Date of Publication:
2002

鈥�Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend鈥�s militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.鈥�
Citations
Killens, John Oliver. The Cotillion, or, One Good Bull is Half the Herd. St. Paul, MN: Coffee House Press, 2002.