The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal.
1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and...
1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and...
Categorie:
Anno:
2023
Casa editrice:
Simon & Schuster
Lingua:
english
File:
EPUB, 2.95 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2023
Amazon 
Barnes & Noble 
Bookshop.org 
Converti i file
Più risultati di ricerca
Altri vantaggi 
![Nguyen Phan Que Mai [Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai] — Dust Child: A Novel](https://s3proxy.cdn-zlib.se/covers200/collections/userbooks/5892e5350e58accd362c259ffd4f9a7316385c155ea2cda575453d853b161d25.jpg)
Termini più frequenti
Liste di libri correlati
