Hot Comb - Softcover

Excerpted on New Yorker.com! Featured in summer reads lists from Publishers Weekly, Elle, Bustle, Library Journal, and MS. Magazine!

"These coming-of-age tales are all connected through that epicenter of community and beauty norms, the hair salon."--Elle Magazine

"[Hot Comb is] rich with both sorrow and celebration as it champions black womanhood and family ties... How black hair is treated (literally and symbolically) becomes the lens to explore both oppression and community."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"These complex stories about the 'ordinary' lives of black girls, mothers, sisters, aunties, grandmas, nieces, and friends are extraordinary. What Ebony Flowers brings to comics is fresh and absolutely groundbreaking. I've been waiting for a book like this forever."--Lynda Barry, author of One Hundred Demons

"In Hot Comb, Ebony Flowers has created an original collection of haunting short stories about the Black experience that go far beyond hair and beauty. Issues of race, class, gender and family bonds are all explored with Flowers' vivid and lively comics. I could see this book as assigned reading in college classrooms and as a bookclub pick for groups looking to engage with current cultural issues in a new and exciting way."--Lori L Tharps, co-author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

"An intimate and truthful collection of stories from an exciting new voice in comics."--Jillian Tamaki, author of Boundless

"Hot Comb is a relaxed and relatable experience. I honestly could not put it down after reading the first page. With a charming mix of humor, heart, and a hard dose of reality, this book is a must read for all."--Taneka Stotts, editor of ELEMENTS: Fire An Anthology by Creators of Color

"Hot Comb will take every Black woman back to her first relaxer--not just the process itself but the peer pressure to "perm" and the unexpected reactions in the aftermath. Flowers shows us why it's always about more than just hair. What a delightful read!"--Dr Cheryl Thompson, author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture