The Women of Brewster Place
, by Naylor, GloriaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780140066906 | 014006690X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1983
Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union.