<p style="padding-left: 90px;">“Men and women, belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.â€ – Bill Cosby</p>

Before <em>The Conversation </em>arrived in my mailbox, I knew little about Hill Harper. I managed to catch the same three tidbits everyone else pretty much heard about him: Harper went to Harvard Law School, is friends with President Obama and stars on CSI: NY (a show I have never watched).

But when I was asked to review Harper’s first book for adults – a relationship book that stresses the importance of communication between men and women – I still agreed. Although it is rare for me to read a self-help or relationship book, I decided to review Harper’s latest book since it can “help men and women build loving and trusting relationships.â€ And I, for one, am a fan of being in a loving and trusting relationship.
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Harper doesn’t claim to be a relationship expert and doesn’t offer scientific research to back up his statements, but there are quite a few takeaways in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592405789/islandtravela-20" target="_blank"><em>The Conversation</em></a> that are worth listening to but if you have a friend with a good head on their shoulders, they most likely would have said similar.
<p style="padding-left: 150px;">“The roles that honesty and trust play in a relationship are crucialâ€ – Hill Harper</p>

Harper shares good and bad experiences from his past relationships and anecdotes of the relationships and beliefs of others in order to “talkâ€ various topics from cheating, dating a divorce or dating outside your race.  In many of the cases, Harper has men and women give their honest (and at times uncensored) opinions about the topic at hand. This helps give <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592405789/islandtravela-20" target="_blank"><em>The Conversation</em></a> a refreshing spin not usually found in relationship books.

And Harper is sure to strike a cord with many when writes:
<blockquote>Nothing a cheater will say can lessen the blow of knowing your trust has been betrayed. Honesty, trust and friendship in a relationship are crucial, and no relationship can survive without them. Once they have been broken, you must ask the question of whether you will ever be able to trust that person again. The question of whether a relationship can be rebuilt or whether it should be ended after an affair is an individual one.</blockquote>
Click to Buy: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592405789/islandtravela-20" target="_blank"><em>The Conversation</em></a>

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