Brown girl, brownstones / Paule Marshall ; with an afterword by Mary Helen Washington.

"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...

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Main Author: Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, [1981]
Edition:First Feminist Press edition.
Series:Contemporary classics by women.
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