With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'Timelessly cinematic, with
painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that
ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' Emma Garman,
Paris Review Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, THE
WEDDING tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular
community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's
black bourgeoisie. Within this inner circle of 'blue-vein society',
we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of
their loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from 'a
whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right
professions.' Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to
be married to Mead Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A
shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple
with the changing face of its community. Not just the story of one
wedding, but of many, this compelling story offers insights into
issues of race, prejudice and identity while maintaining its firm
belief in the compensatory power of love. Through a delicate
interweaving of past and present, North and South, black and white,
THE WEDDING unfolds outward from a single isolated time and place
until it embraces five generations of an extraordinary American
family. It is an audacious accomplishment, a monumental history of
the rise of a black middle class, written by a writer who lived it.
Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, it is Dorothy West's crowning
achievement.
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