The Women of Brewster Place

by Gloria Naylor (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.94

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $3.20

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $16.25

  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.