Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall with Edwidge Danticat (Contributor), Mary Helen Washington (Contributor)

319 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Set in Brooklyn during the Great Depression and World War II, Brown Girl, Brownstones chronicles the efforts of Barbadian immigrants to surmount poverty and racism and to make their new country home. Selina Boyce is torn between the opposing aspir...

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