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Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud... Read Full Overview

African American Women Writers, 1910-1940 is a projected 30-volume series consisting of facsimile reprints of works by black women writers published during the first half of the 20th century. The collection covers a wide range of general fiction, poetry, drama, biography and... Read Full Overview

Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union... Read Full Overview

This novel by the author of Plum Bun and There is Confusion focuses on the lives of the beautiful Laurentine Strange and her vivacious younger cousin, Melissa Paul, in the early part of this century. The volume also includes a selection of Jessie Redmon Fauset's nonfiction writings... Read Full Overview

A novel dealing with the private lives of educated black Americans who have had minimal contact with whites. The story concerns two cousins whose illegitimacy threatens to wreck their happiness.

Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union... Read Full Overview