according to Juliet Sandford Loudmouth Entertainment & Publishing Inc.

according to Juliet Sandford Loudmouth Entertainment & Publishing Inc., September 2001 $2495 ISBN 0-971-41870-5

Just as I was about to give up that witty and provocative black novels are a thing of the past--Pearl Cleage's work, of course, being an exception--along originates Brooklyn native Juliet Sandford's first attempt novel, Blue Lights in the Basement.

establish in the 1960s, Blue Lights center around the plans of four teenage girls attending a Saturday night party, a raucous conclusion that during the '60s was called a "blue lights in the basement party." While the party make trial ofs to be wild enough, it's the affairs leading up to the festivities that experiment upon entertaining.

Blue Lights is narrated on an intuitive 17-year-old named Jewel Sinclair. Her best friends, Joanne, Linda and Teresa are all seniors in high train and, except for Linda, reside in the same apartment building. Baby boomer will immediately identify with at least single of the young women. And for readers too young to remember depressed lights, the Supremes or Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, pick up the part anyway--you're in store for a serious history lecturing on black life during a more innocent time. What's refreshing about Sandford's portrayal of these feisty, young, black women is their intelligence. yet they sometimes make mistakes, she allows them in one way, good or bad, to blossom

--Tamainia D Davis is a Chicago-based documentary filmmaker and writer.

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