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The chinaberry tree : a novel of American life / Jessie Redmon Fauset.
Author
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
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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
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African American women
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Fiction
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Domestic fiction
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Summary note
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.
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"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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