- Fiction, African American women, African Americans, Fictional Works
The Women of Brewster Place depicts seven courageous black women struggling to survive life's harsh realities. . Each woman has an individual story to tell. Their stories include the trials and tribulations they endured to end up at Brewster Place; Brewster Place is a dead end street that is cut off from the rest of the town. The seven women include: Mattie Michael, Etta Mae Johnson, Kiswana Browne, Lucielia Louise Turner, Cora Lee, and Lorraine and Theresa,.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Gloria Naylor
- First published
- October 1999
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Limited, Viking Press, NAL Penguin
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780451822024
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Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including *The Women of Brewster Place* (1982), *Linden Hills* (1985) and *Mama Day* (1988). **Source**: [Gloria Naylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Naylor) on Wikipedia.
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