The chinaberry tree : a novel of American life / Jessie Redmon Fauset.

Author
Fauset, Jessie Redmon [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2013.
  • ©1931
Description
x, 341 pages ; 22 cm

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Firestone Library - African American Studies Reading Room PS3511.A864 C48 2013 Browse related items Request

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    Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent, she longs for the respectability of a conventional marriage. Laurentine's vivacious and self-confident cousin, Melissa, also aspires to "marry up." But a family secret shadows Melissa's dreams and ambitions as she approaches an explosive revelation. -- From publisher's description.
    Notes
    "This Dover edition, first published in 2013, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, in 1931."
    ISBN
    • 9780486493220 ((paperback))
    • 0486493229 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2013013730
    OCLC
    840937237
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