- Social life and customs, Race relations, Race identity, Anecdotes
Born in upper-crust black Chicago—her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation’s oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite—Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society.
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Character-led, prestige, contemplative and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Margo Jefferson
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Pantheon, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307378453
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