title: Green Thursday: Stories
author: Julia Peterkin
description: Pulitzer Prize winner Peterkin was a pioneer in writing candidly, yet unsentimentally, about black women, including their sensuality. Debuting in 1924 and 1928, respectively, these two titles offer a collection of short stories and a novel.<br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **OUTSTANDING PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF JANE GREEN!**
  
   _ **TO HAVE AND TO HOLD**_
  
  “Green is the queen of the chick lit literati—her books are just so damn
  readable…for sheer enjoyment, _To Have and To Hold_ can’t be beaten.”
  
  >  _—Glamour_
  
  “A deftly humorous and insightful take on modern marriage.”
  
  > — _Cosmopolitan_
  
   _ **BABYVILLE**_
  
  “Warm, lively, wise, and distinctly unputdownable.”
  
  > — _Hello!_
  
  “In this, possibly the first baby bonkbuster, Green has delved amusingly into
  the rich comic seam of Osh Kosh-obsessed thirtysomething parenthood.”
  
  > — _The Daily Mail_
  
   _ **BOOKENDS**_
  
  “Funny and poignant—you’ll devour it in one sitting.”
  
  > — _Cosmopolitan_
  
  “The author of the successful _Mr. Maybe_ does it again.”
  
  > — _She_
  
  “Quick, witty, unputdownable and perfect beach reading. Don’t miss it.”
  
  > — _Daily Mirror_
  
   _ **MR. MAYBE**_
  
  “Jane Green’s third novel about the business of netting a man will go straight
  to the bestseller lists.”
  
  > — _Marie Claire_
  
  “There’s no maybe a