Brown girl, brownstones / Paule Marshall ; foreword by Edwidge Danticat ; afterword by Mary Helen Washington

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2006Description: xii, 324 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781558614987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • Fic
Summary: 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.
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Book Book Project 8 Branch Fiction Area Fiction Fic M369b 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 115832d

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.

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