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Quench The Smoldering Wick - 813mPi5yx-L._SL1500
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Quench The Smoldering Wick

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INDUSTRIAL FOOD TYCOON SHALE GIMMEL ISinterrupted at a university board of governors meeting with news that his mistress is engaging in extra-curricular activities of her own. A young dishwasher at one of Shale’s properties is beset by unrelenting racial prejudice. A well-heeled stockbroker feels the economic strain of hismodern, materialistic existence. A transplantedPennsylvania millennial in her search for social justice learns the cruel realities of working in the inner city. Their lives come together in this explosive debut novel that takes a satirical bite out of contemporary, caste-obsessed New Orleans