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"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...
2) Lucy
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"Lucy has left the West Indies for a job in New York, but she discovers that her employers' perfect lives are not what they seem." --
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A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel that celebrates community and creativity. It's Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren't celebrating. They're still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting just a few months earlier. Then Lolly's mother's girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything:...
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Scribner
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[1998]
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"Essence" editor Rosemarie Robotham makes an impressive fiction debut with this tender, seductive love story about a perceptive young social worker and the not-quite-single reporter who draws him into the restless stream of her life.
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