The Women of Brewster Place

Name: The Women of Brewster Place
Author: Gloria Naylor

by Gloria Naylor

Women residents of a tenement building share stories of struggle and hope

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Gloria Naylor

American novelist whose The Women of Brewster Place won the National Book Award for First Novel and was adapted for television. Her Brewster Place cycle traces a community of Black women with power and compassion. She is an important voice in African American women's fiction.

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