
An insightful, witty novel set in early twentieth-century black Boston by the Harlem Renaissance's youngest member--reissued for a new generation of readers.

This stunning first novel by the author of The Wedding is one of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judson--daughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of "Black Banana King" Bart Judson. Cleo seeks to recreate...





