the proposal jasmine guillory book review

Seeing Nik’s distress, Carlos takes a page from a cousin’s book and, along with Angela, approaches Nik, pretending that they know her and are happy to be reunited with her.

An irate Fisher leaves in a huff, and Nik is quickly swarmed by TV cameras.Īlso in the stadium that day are Carlos Ibarra and his sister Angela. So Nik has no choice but to decline Fisher’s proposal in the most public way possible. Not only is Fisher a shallow actor whom Nik has been dating for only five months, he did not consult her about his public proposal and her name is even misspelled on the JumboTron. Journalist Nikole “Nik” Paterson is attending a game with her hipster boyfriend, Fisher, and a group of Fisher’s friends in honor of Fisher’s birthday when Fisher proposes to her via the JumboTron. The interviewer presented your debut novel as revolutionary because it was “a romance novel written by a Black woman with a Black woman protagonist that was released by a major publisher.” Other books fit that description long before The Wedding Date-the entire Kimani line comes to mind-and some of their authors were understandably unhappy.īut then a friend suggested that I give The Proposal a chance anyway, and I decided to go ahead because I enjoyed The Wedding Date and because I think Berkeley is doing a great thing in giving a diverse book a big marketing push and I want to support that. I was on the fence about reading The Proposal because of a controversy regarding this interview with you at Bitch Media.

The proposal jasmine guillory book review