Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." ? Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its
This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single v
In 1965, Paule Marshall was a fledgling novelist and a new mother, endeavoring to make her career as a writer. Without any warning, she received an invitation to join the poet Langston Hughes on a wh
In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inim
Fifty years after jazz pianist Sonny-Rett Payne fled family disapproval in the U.S. for life as a superstar in Paris, his eight-year-old grandson returns to Sonny-Rett's old Brooklyn neighborhood to a
“Remarkable for its courage, its color and its natural control.”—The New Yorker“Unforgettable...written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears.”—The Herald TribuneThis beloved coming-of-age st