Hot Comb Condition:Well Read With all due respect

With all due respect

Until she meets Ryan Lambert

forty-one famous women write letters to the women they once were

Readers are introduced to the performers and learn the variations in style and opinion that make each culture's music vibrant and alive

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Hot Comb Condition:Well Read With all due respectAn auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Awardwinning cartoonistHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black womens lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular Hot Comb is about a young girls first perma doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming too white in the all black neighborhood her family has just moved into.