Brown girl, brownstones

Marshall, Paule , 1929-

Brown girl, brownstones / Paule Marshall - Dover ed. - Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications , 2009. - iii, 268 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1959.

Set in Depression-era Brooklyn, NY, this 1959 coming-of-age novel finds Selina Boyce caught in the middle of her immigrant parents. Mom wants Selina to get an American education, while dad dreams of returning to Barbados. Along with her parental woes, our heroine must deal with the poverty and racism that surrounds her.

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Young women----Fiction
African American women----Fiction


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Feminist fiction

PS3563.A7223 / B7 2009

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