Plum Bun
Books | Fiction / African American & Black / Women
4.1
Jessi Redmon Fauset
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.
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Author
Jessi Redmon Fauset
Pages
408
Publisher
Beacon Press
Published Date
1999-12-15
ISBN
0807009199 9780807009192
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"An interesting novel about women navigating trying to find themselves while living in New York in the 20s. Angela and her sister Virginia are both African American, but Angela can "pass" and her sister can't. Angela tries to reinvent herself as a white art student and learns along the way about isolation and loneliness as well as solidarity and pride. Some of the ideas are definitely showing their age (there's a line about how Jewish people are naturally ambitious that surprised me a bit) and the romances are a bit silly but overall I liked it."
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