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The Living is Easy

By Dorothy West, Morgan Jerkins (Foreword by), Adelaide M. Cromwell (Afterword)
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By Dorothy West, Morgan Jerkins (Foreword by), Adelaide M. Cromwell (Afterword)
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An insightful, witty novel set in early twentieth-century black Boston by the Harlem Renaissance's youngest member.

"A powerful work." —Essence

The first novel by Dorothy West—author of The Wedding—was one of only a handful to be published by black women during the 1940s. The Living Is Easy tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, determined to integrate into Boston's black elite. Married to the "Black Banana King" Bart Judson, Cleo maneuvers her three sisters and...

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