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IN HER HERALDED FIRST NOVEL, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak inner-city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and open-hearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects - a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition. Her remarkable sense of community and history makes The Women of Brewster Place a contemporary classic - and a touching and unforgettable read.

Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange

The Street by Ann Petry

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper

Liliane by Ntozake Shange

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell

The Wedding by Dorothy West

Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do by Pearl Cleage

Like One of the Family by Alice Childress

Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

Ugly Ways by Tina McElroy Ansa

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig