Brown girl, brownstones

By Paule Marshall

Subjects: Feminist fiction, Young women, Ps3563.a7223 b7 2006, Women, Fiction, women, Indians of north america, fiction, Domestic fiction, Literature, African Americans, Fiction, general, African American women, Women, biography, 813/.54, Barbadian Americans, West indian americans--fiction, 1000blackgirlbooks, Fiction, family life, Young women--fiction, Caribische literatuur, Fictie, Young women, fiction, West indian americans, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction, West Indian Americans

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.