Brown girl, brownstones
By: Paule Marshall ; with an afterword by Mary Helen Washington.
Edition: 1st Feminist Press ed.
Publisher: The Feminist Press; Feminist Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Old Westbury, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: West Indian Americans -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats 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."--Page 4 of cover.