Sorority Sisters: NPHC-based novel by Tajuana Butler

[gamma_girl52]

I had the book and I thought it was okay. Nothing really to take seriously, just a nice, light read for me. I can't speak on whether or not the "process" involved was real but it's fiction. You can only take it for so much.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by gamma_girl52

I had the book and I thought it was okay. Nothing really to take seriously, just a nice, light read for me. I can't speak on whether or not the "process" involved was real but it's fiction. You can only take it for so much.

I read it in 2000 on an overseas flight.

One thing I liked was that overall it was a positive book and didn't glamorize hazing.

The bad thing was that I could never keep up with the girls who were pledging. I think there were five of them and only four distinct personalities came out.

When I later wrote my own novel about Black/Latino Greek Life, I remembered to try extra hard to give each of the pledges a personality and something to do, but I still had two that were ultimately unmemorable.

Sorority Sisters also fails to discuss "the process" beyond rush. Much of the book was "And we were so scared when we entered that room."

"The next morning..."

And it's like wtf, we want to know what happened!

My novel (again, in contrast, not to self-promote) has the INTENTION of de-glamorizing pledging and hazing rather than glossing over it.

So, Sorority Sisters is an important novel in that it sparked a "movement" of other black Greek novels, but succeeds more in a novel about friendship than it does spark discussions about Greek life.