Sex and the Single Sister (2001)
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Maryann Reid's 2001 book gathers five novellas about young Black women dating in New York. In "Get It Quick and a Bag of Tricks", Waceera gets ready for a night out with her friend Samira and names both of her watches in one breath. (Open Library)
Watches
- Wittnauer watch
- Fussing with her hair at 8:45 with her punctual friend Samira due at nine, Waceera cannot find her gold Wittnauer and wears her silver Anne Klein instead. The Wittnauer is hers but stays lost for the scene; both makers are named and neither model is.
Source text: I can't find my gold Wittnauer watch, so I'll have to wear my silver Anne Klein. (Maryann Reid, "Get It Quick and a Bag of Tricks", in Sex and the Single Sister: Five Novellas, scan cataloged as St. Martin's Press, 2001, p. 182; the narrator is named on p. 183; Internet Archive scan OCR)
- Anne Klein watch
- The silver Anne Klein is the watch Waceera actually wears for the night out, her second choice once the gold Wittnauer fails to turn up; by 8:54 she is reading the time while Samira refuses to come up and wait. The maker is named; the style is not.
Source text: I can't find my gold Wittnauer watch, so I'll have to wear my silver Anne Klein. (Maryann Reid, "Get It Quick and a Bag of Tricks", in Sex and the Single Sister: Five Novellas, scan cataloged as St. Martin's Press, 2001, p. 182; Internet Archive scan OCR)