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Brown Girl, Brownstones

by Paule Marshall, Mary Helen Washington, Edwidge Danticat

1959·324 pages
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9780486468327

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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 courage." — The New Yorker.

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