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Milk in My Coffee Kindle Edition

by Eric Jerome Dickey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,015 ratings
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From Eric Jerome Dickey comes the New York Times bestselling book that stirred up controversy with its bold portrayal of racial identity and subtle understanding of sexual intimacy. 

Jordan Greene is in culture shock when he arrives in Manhattan from his Tennessee hometown. Still, he manages to keep the pace and stay in the race, with a Wall Street job, a Queens apartment, and a very sexy girlfriend named J'nette.

But when Jordan meets Kimberly Chavers, what starts as a shared cab ride turns into something more. This girl is funny, fiesty, fine...and white. And for a man with Malcolm X's picture hanging on his office wall, that's a definite problem....

This brightly entertaining and emotionally complex novel demonstrates why Eric Jerome Dickey was “one of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century” (The New York Times).
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    Dutton
  5. Publication date
    May 1, 2000
  6. Reading age
    18 years and up
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Dickey's third novel takes on the personal politics associated with interracial romance, as a chance encounter in a Manhattan taxi brings together Jordan Greene, a young black urban professional, and Kimberly Chavers, a white painter. Dickey gets far beyond the stereotypes, infusing all his characters with complex emotional lives, and while Jordan dominates the story, the multiple first-person narration shows just how deep Dickey's willing to get inside "all" his characters' heads. Milk in My Coffee is a story about two people coming to terms with the attitudes that shape their identities, where hearts and minds learn painful lessons about getting beyond what the eye can see. --Ron Hogan

From Publishers Weekly

When a black man meets a white woman and they fall in love, sometimes there are more pressing matters that concern them than the predictable fuss over an interracial relationship. The latest novel from the popular Dickey (Friends and Lovers) is as much about relationships as it is about race. Both Jordan Greene, a 30ish engineer, and Kimberly Chavers, a 28-year-old artist, have thorny connections with friends, former lovers and relatives that they must unravel before they can even begin to think about a life together. For Jordan, there is his on-again, off-again relationship with fiery J'nette, who says she is carrying his baby. There is his friendship with his confidant Solomon, who is engaged to J'nette's best friend but may be less trustworthy than he seems. Then there is Jordan's family. When he flies from New York to his native small town of Brownsville, Tenn., to attend the funeral of his ex-stepfather, Jordan is caught in the thick of family woes. His half-brother, Reggie, has finally checked into a drug rehabilitation program but only after casting their older brother, Darrell, into bankruptcy. In the rural South, where racial tensions are more frightening and immediate than Jordan remembers, he must not only suffer his older brother's harangues against dating white women but also do so while loaning him money. Kimberly, meanwhile, is trying to rid herself of an obnoxious, white ex-boyfriend and come to grips with a secret past that she fears will make Jordan doubt her love for him. By the time she shows Jordan her skeletons, makes up with a troubled family of her own and faces down violence on the streets of New York, Dickey has demonstrated once again his easy mastery of dialogue and voice (both romantic leads share narrator's honors with an omniscient third-person) and his cheerful, wittily acerbic eye for the troubles that plague lovers in the 1990s. (Sept.) FYI: Signet will issue Friends and Lovers in paperback in September.
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Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000OCXI4E
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dutton; Reissue edition (May 1, 2000)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2000
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 791 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 311 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,015 ratings

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Eric Jerome Dickey

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Eric Jerome Dickey (1961 - 2021) was the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, as well as a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther. His works, almost all with Dutton, include Sister, Sister (honored as one of Essence’s “50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years”); Milk in My Coffee; the Gideon series; and Liar's Game, Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, and Genevieve (all nominated for NAACP Image Awards); as well as The Son of Mr. Suleman. His 2014 novel, A Wanted Woman, won the NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work.

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Little Miss Cutey
5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable :-)
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2006
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I've read the majority of Eric Jerome Dickey's books and loved them all (with the exception of his newer books). These older ones of his are the best.

This is a great book with a good plot and an interesting and unexpected twist. Jordan comes to New York from Tennessee and is culture shocked. He has a Wall Street job and a girlfriend who is black. However, he does meet a white woman called Kimberly and he falls hard. The book goes on to tell the story of their budding relationship and the way he deals with it. His friends can't understand him and he tries to work it all out. You will keep guessing till the end, but when you get there, you'll be surprised. It's a great book and a fun read. You are bound to love this.
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Afrika Johns
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2021
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I love a good love story. Jordan and Kimberly have the odds stacked against them. The book touches on many different experiences and its brilliantly expressed. I would recommend this book to anyone!
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Betty Holloway
5.0 out of 5 stars RELUCTANT FIVE STARS
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 1999
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FIRST OF ALL, I LOVE ERIC JEROME DICKEY'S WRITING STYLE, AND THAT'S THE REASON I GIVE THIS BOOK FIVE STARS.
THE BOOK AND STORYLINE PROVIDED ME WITH A GOOD READ, BUT I HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE "CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF SOLOMON." WHAT HE DID WAS TOTALLY OUT OF CHARACTER. FIRST HE WAS PORTRAYED AS A LOVING FATHER AND ANXIOUS TO BE MARRIED SINGLE MAN, TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH HIS FIANCE. THEN WE TURN AROUND AND FIND A RAPIST. THUS, "CHARACTER ASSASSINATION."
SECONDLY, I HAVE A REAL SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE FACT THAT THE HEROINE (KIMBERLY) WAS ATTRACTED TO A BLACK MAN TO FULFIL HER HEART'S DESIRE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DENYING THE SAME BLACKNESS IN HERSELF. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?
THAT'S NOT REALITY TO ME. IT'S MORE TOKEN TO BEING IN THE CLOSET OF REALITY, HOPING THAT THE DOOR DOESN'T OPEN TO EXPOSE WHO YOU TRULY ARE, IN THIS CASE, A SISTER DENYING "SISTERHOOD."
I'M IN THE PROCESS OF READNG "CHEATERS" AND HOPE TO FIND THE CHARACTERS MORE IN LINE WITH THEIR IDENTITY AND RACE.
THIS STORY DEFINITELY DOES NOT SAY TO US "I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD," AT LEAST FROM THE HEROINE KIMBERLY'S VIEWPOINT
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Merle Solomon
5.0 out of 5 stars Love the author
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2022
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This is the second book I read by Eric Jerome Dickey. I enjoyed this book just as much as the first.
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4.0 out of 5 stars 4 stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
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4 stars for this read it seem like it fell a little short like there should have been another chapter R.I.I Eric Jermone Dickey
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Larissa Francis
5.0 out of 5 stars My absolute favorite
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2020
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This was the first novel I ready by EJD. Picked it up and didn’t put it down until I was finished. Loved the relationship between Jordan and Kimberly. Hated that Jordan’s best friend betrayed him. This is a must read, highly recommended.
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Ms. Keep It Real
5.0 out of 5 stars Dickey once again has done an awesome job writing this story
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2015
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Mr. Dickey once again has done an awesome job writing this story. It is a great read and I recommend it. As you are reading his books, you can actually see it play before your eyes. You can picture the actor and actresses to play the characters and while you are reading, you are enjoying the show as well. I love the way he describe the characters and how he make you feel the story. Eric Jerome Dickey is the author of all time and he is a cool guy in person. I recommend this great read.
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Jody
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books of all time!!!
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2012
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I loved this book so much, I've read it twice. Anyone who has been in an interracial relationship can understand the issues this couple has to deal with. I really appreciate how Kimberly comes off as being a strong women. Not weak like most white women are portrayed to be in most interracial love stories. My only problem with Jordan is, he is too worried about what everyone else thinks of his realitionship with Kimberly. I say, f--k'em. If they have a problem with it, you don't need them. In the end, it's always hard to find out that you really don't have friends in this world, only associates. I'm glad there was a happy ending to the story.
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tamla
5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Contribution To African American Literature
Reviewed in Canada on August 6, 2016
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I first read this book after reading Friends & Lovers where Jordan is a guy that a lot of Women would love to know. Handsome, Successful, Educated and despite his Family Problems consisting of a Drug Addicted Brother, he meets Kimberly Denise Chavers an Artist, they hit it off fall in love who never would have thought he would have fallen for a White Girl. As the months go on, he discovers how the Web Of Deception affects him. His Brother Darrell voicing is disapproval, Meeting His New Sister In Law Wanda who is the Wife of His Brother Reggie who is trying to make amends, then dealing with an unexpected pregnancy by his ex-Girlfriend J'nette who is a Drama Queen. The fun thing is that both Jordan and Kimberly tell "their" sides and you as the reader learn a lot about themselves and how they perservere. I won't give away the ending but you learn what goes around comes around.
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Bright star
5.0 out of 5 stars Great romance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2016
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I have bought this book as a present for a dear friend. She needed cheering up and this well written book full of life stories and romance is definitely what she needed. I ended up having to ask her if I could borrow it!
She loved it as much as I did!
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Jo
5.0 out of 5 stars Well packaged.
Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2021
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The book had no dent, scratches or wrinkles so I’m well pleased with the packaging. One of my favourite author so I’m very excited to start reading this book!
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Myri
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2020
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Beautiful book. Enjoyable read
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UglyFleur
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2015
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Overall an excellent read :-)
He always leaves you wanting more... I fully enjoyed reading this and the characters were on point.
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