{"product_id":"the-women-of-brewster-place-isbn-9780140066906","title":"The Women of Brewster Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Brims with inventiveness—and relevance.” \u003cb\u003e—NPR's \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this touching and unforgettable read.\"[Naylor's] ardent inventiveness as a storyteller and the complex individuality she gives to each of her seven main characters make the novel so much more than a contrived literary assembly line. . . . Deftly, Naylor gathers all these individual stories into one climactic narrative that works through the reader via a word-by-word sense of horror and outrage. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Brewster Place\u003c\/i\u003e, born of the details of a particular time and community, also turns out to be one of those, yes, universal stories depicting how we, the fallen, seek grace.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eMaureen Corrigan, NPR's\u003ci\u003e Fresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Claude Brown, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eManchild in the Promised Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human—very human—courage and sturdiness.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Vibrating with undisguised emotion, \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Brewster Place\u003c\/i\u003e springs from the same roots that produces the blues. Like them, [Naylor’s] book sings of sorrow proudly borne by black women in America.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGloria Naylor\u003c\/b\u003e (1950-2016) grew up in New York City. She received her BA in English from Brooklyn College and her MA in Afro-American Studies from Yale University. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Brewster Place\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eLinden Hills \u003c\/i\u003e(available from Penguin), \u003ci\u003eMama Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBailey's Cafe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Men of Brewster Place\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTayari Jones \u003c\/b\u003e(foreword) is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection and a favorite of Barack Obama, as well as \u003ci\u003eSilver Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Untelling\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Atlanta\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor-at-large at Cornell University and a professor of creative writing at Emory University.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301903519973,"sku":"NP9780140066906","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140066906.jpg?v=1767742287","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-women-of-brewster-place-isbn-9780140066906","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}