Glorious

By Bernice L. McFadden

Subjects: African American women authors, Harlem Renaissance, Fiction, historical, Manners and customs, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, african american & black, historical, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: Set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.