Hot Comb Lewis Thorpe What makes life worth living

What makes life worth living in the face of death

to her enigmatic father

a yellow chick

Roast Duck and Egg Noodle Soup

Hot Comb Lewis Thorpe What makes life worth livingAn auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Awardwinning cartoonistHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black womens lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular Hot Comb is about a young girls first perma doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming too white in the all black neighborhood her family has just moved into.