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

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

by Gloria Naylor (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 18 Dec 2000
ISBN 10: 014006690X
ISBN 13: 9780140066906

Media Reviews
[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Miss Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly. -The New York Times Book Review

The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison. -Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land

Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human - very human - courage and sturdiness. Chicago Sun-Times

Vibrating with undisguised emotion, The Women of Brewster Place springs from the same roots that produces the blues. Like them, [Naylor's] book sings of sorrow proudly borne by black women in America. -The Washington Post

Author Bio
Gloria Naylor (1950-2016) grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and her M.A. in Afro-American Studies from Yale University. Her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983. She is also the author of Linden Hills (available from Penguin), Mama Day, Bailey's Cafe, and The Men of Brewster Place.