Frankness and honesty between friends is in our interests, especially when we don't agree.
Taking herself as her own model, her exaggerated nudes point up, with an agonising frankness, the disparity between the way women are perceived and the way that they feel about their bodies.
The amiability flips back-and-forth between frankness as we touch on the idea of paying for Afropunk.
Stories that fans had upgraded from "rumour" status to "legend" are dusted down and new insights offered – theories are advanced to explain Jay's motivation in going after Nas on record, while Nas writes with a surprising philosophical frankness about the relationship between Jay and Carmen Bryant, the estranged mother of his eldest child, Destiny.
Such arguments have led to a lack of frankness about the actual relationship between science and war; even some literary scholars with an interest in science argue that it was only in the Second World War that science and the military became allied.
She sold more than 15 million records, was nominated three times for the Latin Grammy Award, and developed a reputation for hard-hitting lyrics that addressed relationships between the sexes with a frankness reminiscent of American country music; one of her albums, released in 2007, was titled "My Crazy Life".
By the end of this short, intense novel it becomes clear that the collision between our hard-won new capacity for frankness and a deep-rooted sense of archaic guilt and grief is precisely Greenwell's subject.
It is a book about hair: straight versus afro; and discreet tensions, not just between white Americans and Nigerian immigrants, but between Africans and African Americans, between the light- and dark-skinned, between new and established immigrants, and its frankness – in particular on the subject of gender – has upset some people.
The correspondence between Noël and Violet is of such intimacy, frankness and humor as to constitute a love story the hardest heart must respond to.
