The women of Brewster Place

Author: Gloria Naylor
ISBN: 9780140066906

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.

Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 1988

Subjects: African American neighborhoods, African American women/ Fiction, African American women, African Americans, Afro-American women, Domestic fiction, Fiction in English. American writers, Inner cities - United States, Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Fiction)