The Women of Brewster Place

"[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. . . . The Women of Brewster Place, 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.” — Maureen Corrigan, NPR‘s Fresh Air “The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison.” —Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land “Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human—very human—courage and sturdiness.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Vibrating with undisguised emotion, The Women of Brewster Place springs from the same roots that produces the blues. Like them, [Naylor’s] book sings of sorrow proudly borne by black women in America.” —The Washington Post