Guys in Suits
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3.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A group of friends try to make sense of love and life in the new millennium in this hilarious novel from Van Whitfield, author of Something’s Wrong with Your Scale! and Beeperless Remote.
After years of disappointment, Simon Washington has grown tired of the Washington, DC, dating scene. He’s desperately looking for a wife when he runs into his first love and determines to regain her affections. Meanwhile, Simon’s best friend Stuart Worthington is doing his best not to settle down when he also rekindles a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. As it happens, both friends are in immediate need of dates for their annual New Year’s vacation. With the clock ticking and their tickets waiting, Stuart and Simon lay plans to convince these old flames to accompany them, only to have a shocking revelation threaten everything at the last minute. With its page-turning plot and hilarious insights, Guys in Suits is a delightful novel that shines a spotlight on the imperfections of men, the enigmas of women, and the perils they both face in the quest to find someone right.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Forget studs and the babes who love them in this rare regular-guys romance, two Washington, D.C., African-American men come to terms with their very average romantic prospects. Bus driver Simon and financial planner Stuart, Whitfield's two lovelorn Lotharios, are in their 30s now and ready to commit, but somehow the ladies aren't materializing. To make matters worse, they've got a little more than a month to figure out who to bring along on their annual vacation with their married friends Rod and Trevor. Last year, their disastrous dates arrived sight unseen courtesy of the Internet, so this year they are desperately trying to save face and maybe even land a meaningful relationship. Each one reconnects with an old girlfriend Simon with Eve and Stuart with Lynn. There's just one problem. Eve and Lynn are actually one woman, Evelyn, a beautiful, savvy, intelligent catch for any discerning man and as it happens, aiming several rungs above either Simon or Stuart . How the two men manage to figure this out and still have a good time on their vacation makes for an entertaining read. Although author Whitfield tends toward sexist stereotypes, he also captures the comedy of modern love with all its mixed messages and confusion, and manages to create engaging characters in Simon and Stuart. The two protagonists narrate the book in the first person, which become confusing at times since their voices aren't appreciably different, and Whitfield does tend toward overblown prose ("Her skin appeared to be as soft and smooth as a Boyz II Men ballad"). Still, he orchestrates a number of truly hilarious moments in this arch, self-aware comedy, ranging from a telephone conversation gone horribly awry to Simon and Stuart's attempt to mentor a pair of high-risk teens.
