Sister, Because of You - Paperback

by Lloyd Hollis Crooks (Author)

SISTER, BECAUSE OF YOU . . . is fiction. The sisters are Ella Willa and Bianca, educated, black women. Only Ella Willa, against great odds, tells her story. Her story is sociopolitical. Their Father, James Jules Wilcox, has a reason why he hates white people with a passion and says he would disown his daughters if they marry a white man. Because of Bianca's advice to her sister - "Love has no color"-Ella Willa falls in love with an English tourist named William Baxter that she meets at the mall at Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Thirsty for being in love with a man who will truly love her, Ella Willa leaves her aged and sick Father and travels to London to seek the Englishman's love. She is a perfect woman but is getting hit by her present lover all the time until she meets this Englishman. SISTER, BECAUSE OF YOU . . . also speaks of the dirty politics of a New York congenital liar in high society and of a laugh-out-loud comedy.

Author Biography

Lloyd Hollis Crooks is the author of Grenada Ghost; Ice and Eyes in the Sun-True Love Comes Late, Sometimes; Peeping Through the Keyhole; Blood on the Blade and Sister, Because of You. Crooks was a civil servant who covered "sensitive" national and international conferences in the Office of the Prime Minister in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago during the Eric Williams Administration. To name one conference: The United States of America and Trinidad and Tobago Leased Bases Agreement. Crooks was also a court reporter and a Parliament reporter. In New York, he was a partner's secretary in a Wall Street law firm. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and he lectured at five CUNY colleges.