Now available in paperback-the steamy and uproarious publishing sensation of Summer 2003, soon to be a major motion picture. Sexual Healing tells the story of Lydia and Acey, two childhood friends from Oakland who've grown up to become successful, fortysomething professionals. They concoct a plan: why not pool their talents to develop a business that supplies handsome, safe men trained to serve the sexual needs of black women?

From the most dignified black church in Oakland to sex-positive, small-town Nevada, from the racks of Loehmann's to the skyscraping executive suites of San Francisco, Sexual Healing is a page-turning comedy of outraged manners; a blistering satire of American gender, race, and economic relations; and a sexually frank exploration of what women really want. Don't miss the book about which Henry Louis Gates, Jr., said, "Jill Nelson's Sexual Healing revises the representation of the sexuality of African-American women as dramatically as Zora Neale Hurston did in her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God."

What reviewers said about Sexual Healing:

"The must-have summer read . . . a post-feminist fable of sexual empowerment that's smart, explicit, and side-splittingly funny."-Ebony

"Wickedly funny . . . a great read, and a standout in the genre of African-American popular fiction"-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Jill Nelson takes on the world's oldest profession and sexual politics-not only flipping the script, but turning it inside out."-Savoy

"Aimed at readers who enjoy hearing the straight-up truth about sex, and can handle characters who are as real as their closest friends"-New Orleans Times-Picayune

"An African-American Fear of Flying, minus the planes and psychobabble. "-Newcity

Jill Nelson is the author of Volunteer Slavery, which won an American Book Award, and Straight, No Chaser.