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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.
In this landmark anthology -- the companion volume to Langston Hughes's 1967 classic, The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967 -- Gloria Naylor presents the finest African-American short stories of the last three decades. Arranged in four thematic sections -- "Remembering," "Affirming," "Revealing the Self Divided," and "Moving On" -- the thirty-seven stories included brilliantly capture the many facets of the black experience in America. These distinguished authors are represented in Children of the Night Maya Angelou Also available from Little, Brown and Company: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967, Edited and Introduced by Langston Hughes RELATED SITES halala.com: African American books and authors from Time Warner Trade Publishing
On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.
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