The Living is Easy

Brand: The Feminist Press at CUNY

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$13.16 - $28.01
UPC:
9781558611474
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
7/1/1995
Author:
Dorothy West
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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This stunning first novel by the author of The Wedding is one of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judsondaughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of Black Banana King Bart Judson. Cleo seeks to recreate her original family by urging her sisters and their children to live with her, while rearing her daughter to be a member of Boston's black elite.