WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (RACK SIZE) (P)

Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union.Naylor, Gloria is the author of 'WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (RACK SIZE) (P)', published 1989 under ISBN 9780451822024 and ISBN 0451822021.