The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
014006690X
ISBN 13
9780140066906
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Publication Year
1983
Publisher
Pages
192
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
