Friday Night at Honeybee's: A Novel - Softcover

"Perceptive...penetrating...a rich and satisfying story of women who courageously carve out the lives they want rather than endure those prescribed for them."--Washington Post Book World

"A compelling and mesmerizing novel that will take readers on a soulful journey they will not soon forget. Smith's skillful development of the two main characters forces you to celebrate their every success, and suffer their every disappointment as if you were experiencing them yourself. A stunning debut novel." --Karen E. Quinones Miller, author of Satin Doll and Using What You Got

The Friday night musical gatherings of Honeybee McColor attract the finest jazz and blues musicians of the period, including lost souls Forestine Bent and Viola Bembry--one from the Brooklyn projects, and one from the rural South--who find refuge, guidance, friendship, and love under Honeybee's guidance. A first novel. Reprint.