Brown girl, brownstones
/ Paule Marshall ; foreword by Edwidge Danticat ; afterword by Mary Helen Washington
- xii, 324 pages
Tells the story of a young Barbadian American caught between the ambitious dreams of her forward-looking mother and the rose-tinted nostalgia of her father. While Selina's mother strives diligently to save enough money to buy a brownstone in Brooklyn, her father dreams only of returning to his home in Barbados.