The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Type

Book

Authors

Gloria Naylor

ISBN 10

014006690X

ISBN 13

9780140066906

Tags

Short Stories, United States, Contemporary, Literary

Description

Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union. - from Amzon

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