Nothing but the Rent

By Sharon Mitchell

Book Overview

A novel about four vibrant African-American women who renew their determination to face the trials of modern life with humor, strength, and solidarity. Nothing but the Rent is a story about men, money, life, love, and most of all--friendship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525943064
• ISBN13: 9780525943068
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

You will like this book...

I like this book so much that I bought a again a few years after reading it. Its different and it was a fiction book the would be very accepted at this time but when it came out for some reason no one liked it. Who knows why. But I know book s and you wont return this one.

Girls just wanna have fun......and drama!

NOTHING BUT THE RENT was a rare novel in the fact that it included four main characters that were as interesting as a group and would have made excellent subjects for their own novels. Gayle was fighting her own battle with freeing herself and her mother from her dysfunctional family, while Roxanne was falling in love with the man of her dreams and desires, learning that there is a fine line that divides the two. Monique goes against the road of life that her strong-willed mother has paved for her by bucking the system, which includes giving up the man her mother chose to be her husband. Cynthia, having won her battle against weight loss, begins to strive for perfection by maintaining her new look at the risk of her own life. Four women who will struggle for and against each other will find the greatest battle will lie within themselves. An excellent read!

Heart Warming

This book was very well written and hard to put down. It was very funny, easy to read, and easy to get caught up in. The characters became real and I was right there with them. I was so impressed with Sharron Mitchell that I am now reading Sheer Necessity.

Quick Excellent Funny Read

I purchased Nothing but the Rent, and believe me I thought it was very well written to say it was first novel. I found the characters funny and believable. Monique was a riot. It did however break my heart in that to me it seems that every story that is written about Black Women centers around our inability to get a man. Believe me as a 26 year old Black woman I don't sit around all day worrying about who loves me and why I can't find a man. I can't not with car note, mortgage, and the energy it takes to live and survive. I'd like to read a book that details the struggles of working and surviving not always loneliness and losing at the game of love.

THIS BOOK WAS VERY GOOD,BUT LEFT US HANGIN'.

I LIKED THE PLOT BUT WE ALL WERE LEFT WONDERING WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH MONIQUE & TYSON. ALSO GAYLE AND HER MAN.