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plum bun a novel without a moral

by jessie redmon fauset

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The story of Angela Murray and her sister Virginia follows the life of Angela, a light-skinned African American woman. She tries to enter a world of white people to escape the racism, even by changing her name, until she understands that crossing the racial barrier is not enough for her to realize her full potential. An American editor, poet, essayist of the first half of the 20th century, Jessie Redmond Fauset, focuses on a problem of color and privilege, without setting aside other aspects of the story, such as relationship between the two sisters and gender identity. A thoughtful, elegantly written book.

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...disconcerting habit of closing their households and departing for months at a time, and there was Mattie stranded and peril ously trying to make ends meet by taking in sewing. But her clientele was composed of girls as poor as she, who either did their own dressmaking or could afford to pay only the merest trifle for her really exquisite and meticulous work. The situation with the actress had really been the best in many, in almost all, respects. But it presented its pitfalls. Mattie was young, pretty and innocent; the actress was young, beautiful and sophisticated. She had been married twice 28 HHHHHHHHHHKPLUM BUN-HHHHHHHH*** and had been the heroine of many affairs; maidenly modesty, virtue for its own sake, were qualities long since forgotten; high ideals and personal self-respect were too abstract for her slightly coarsened mind to visualize, and at any rate they were incomprehensible and even absurd in a servant, and in a coloured servant to boot. She knew that in spite of...

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20 Nov 2010 19:04:15

it is a really good book...i would honestly recamend it to anyone that likes heartfelt books..it might even change the way you interpret someones life..