Brown Girl, Brownstones

by Paule Marshall

Overview

Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, Brown Girl, Brownstones is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wants to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and poverty that surround her. Moving and powerful, Brown Girl, Brownstones is both a classic coming-of-age tale and a vivid portrait of one family's struggle to achieve the American Dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834146576
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	06/27/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	431,566
File size:	240 KB

About the Author

Paule Marshall is the recipient of numerous honors, including a John Dos Passos Award for Literature, an American Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She holds a distinguished chair in the creative writing program at New York University.

Table of Contents

Book 1. A Long Day and a Long Night
Book 2. Pastorale
Book 3. The War
Book 4. Selina

Editorial Reviews

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. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

These people live and you go there with them through their woe and their joy. Here, ah, here is a book with characters in it. -- Esquire

Dorothy Parker

"Remarkable for its colorful characters, the cadence of its dialogue and its evocation of a still-lingering past." —The New York Times Book Review

"Marshall brings to her characters . . . an instinctive understanding, a generosity and free humor that combine to form a style remarkable for its courage, its color, and its natural control." —The New Yorker

"An unforgettable novel written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears." —The New York Herald Tribune

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