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To be sure, there are networks of black art professionals that already exist, among them, Entre Nous, a dinner series started a few years ago by Courtney Willis Bair, a director of the Manhattan gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

When Randi Wood took over the 17-year old 3rd Street luxury consignment store Entre Nous last year she knew she wanted to make some changes, such as moving the store to a new location, offering a gown rental service, selling pieces online and stepping in as a personal stylist to shoppers.

Overall, prices at Entre Nous range from $80 for an Hermès silk tie to $17,000 for a Valentino crocodile bag.

The relationship Quinn is most concerned with isn’t Freya’s “entre nous” bond with her friend, or her affairs with men; it’s her fierce lifelong embrace of her own ambition, from which nothing and nobody can part her.

The voice is one of a historian, an interested observer, sometimes speaking directly to the reader, sometimes using phrases like “You or I,” creating a kind of entre nous  intimacy that draws you in, makes you feel almost complicit.