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"""An unforgettable novel, written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears.""--Herald Tribune Book Review""Passionate, compelling ... an impressive accomplishment."" - Saturday Review""Remarkable for its courage, its color, and its natural control."" - The New YorkerSelina's mother wants to stay in Brooklyn and earn enough money to buy a brownstone row house, but her father dreams only of returning to his island home. Torn between a romantic nostalgia for the past and a driving ambition for the future, Selina also faces the everyday burdens of poverty and racism. Written by and about."@en
"Selina's mother wants to stay in Brooklyn and earn enough money to buy a brownstone row house, but her father dreams only of returning to his island home. Torn between a romantic nostalgia for the past and a driving ambition for the future, Selina also faces the everyday burdens of poverty and racism."@en
"Selina Boyce, the daughter of immigrants from Barbados, becomes aware of her passions as she grows to womanhood in Brooklyn and experiences the conflict between two cultures."@en
"Selina Boyce, the daughter of immigrants from Barbados, becomes aware of her passions as she grows to womanhood in Brooklyn and experiences the conflict between two cultures."
""Now including a new foreword by the prolific Haitian author Edwidge Danticat, Brown Girl, Brownstones is the work of one of America's finest contemporary black women writers. Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, it chronicles the efforts of Barbadian immigrants to surmount poverty and racism and to make their new country home. Selina Boyce, the novel's memorable heroine, is conflicted by the opposing aspirations of her parents: her hardworking, ambitious mother longs to buy a brownstone row house while her easygoing father prefers to dream of effortless success and his native island's lushness. Eventually, in this coming-of-age story, Selina must forge her own identity, sexuality, and sense of values in her new country and reconcile group tradition with individual potential. The new foreword written by highly acclaimed author Danticat examines Selina's passionate quest for wholeness of identity: "When dreams collide rather than merge, forcing both family members and the community to take sides until one type of dreamer is applauded and the other shunned ... a showdown is imminent." With themes of multi-ethnic racism, immigration, loyalty, and loss at the forefront, this powerful and poetic exploration is as relevant today as it was in its debut."--Publisher's website."
""Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and poverty that surround her."--Page 4 of cover."

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"Electronic books"@en
"Bildungsromans"
"Bildungsromans"@en
"Feminist fiction"
"Feminist fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Tekstuitgave"
"Domestic fiction"
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"Brown girl, brownstones"@en
"Brown girl, brownstones"
"Brown Girl, Brownstones. [A novel.]"@en
"Brown Girl, Brownstones. [A novel.]"
"Brown girl, brownstones : with an afterword by Mary Helen Washington"
"Brown Girl, Brownstones"
"Brown Girl, Brownstones"@en
"Fille noire, pierre sombre: roman"
"Brown girl, Brown stones"
"Brown girl, Brownstones"
"Brown girl, bronwtones"
"Brown girl : brownstones"
"Brown girl, brownstones : [a novel]"
"Fille noire, pierre sombre"
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