Big Toe People: A Novel of Balancing Faith with Friendships, Dating, Career, and Everything Else

What is it that ties these girls together? Yoli, Paulina, Ria, Ashley, & Karyn are all recent college grads. They become best friends as they navigate dating, careers, grad school, parents, finances, fashion, and faith in the multicultural environment of Washington, DC. YOLI, the alpha girl, is bossy, rebellious, uses foul language, and yet is somehow spiritually wise. Adopted from China, she’s bitter about her parents abandoning her to be overseas missionaries. She’s a law student with a passion for fashion and the instigator for wild nights out. PAULINA, an athletic brunette, is Yoli’s studious roommate and fellow law student. A recent convert to Christianity, she struggles with scandalous celebrity parents and a tendency to drink when she’s stressed out. RIA is a willowy blonde with tons of common sense. She has recently moved to Virginia to be near her high school sweetheart and to work on a graduate degree in Education. Raised in a large, Catholic family, her life has been without crisis…so far. ASHLEY is a frumpy church secretary with no ambition. She has never made an adult decision. Yoli decides Ashley is a worthy project, and the new glamor creates an attention monger. KARYN, Yoli’s best friend and fellow law student, is a beautiful, amber-eyed Black girl. Strong, intelligent, and independent, she sees religion as a thing for hypocrites. Yoli’s wild streak has always confirmed that. Though jaded about men, she secretly hopes for a Prince Charming. Will her been-there-done-that attitude be a barrier to personal fulfillment? Reading this novel is like spending quality time with your five best girlfriends, flaws and all.