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The Women of Brewster Place

by Gloria Naylor · 1982

Literary Fiction · ranked #205 in category

Seven Black women live in the dead-end street of Brewster Place — an alley walled off from the rest of the city — and each brings her own story of struggle, love and community. Naylor's debut won the American Book Award and explores the specific forms of resilience and pain in a Black urban community that the mainstream world has literally walled off.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1982 · 1980s
Author
Gloria Naylor
Standing
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