description: In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into the African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud insular community made up of the best and the brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner circle of "blue-vein" society, we witness the prominent Cole family gather for the wedding of their loveliest daughter, Shelby, who has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shockwave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community...
language: English
title: The Wedding
titlecomplete: The Wedding
genres: Fiction, American, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 5835
places: Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Sound Library