Linden HillsA powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor (1950-2016), the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of Wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there - and that they want to be among them. In a resonant novel that takes as it's model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream - that the price of success may very well be on a journey down to the lowest circle of hell. "With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction." -Los Angeles Times Book Review |
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... Lycentia like I did . She would want it just this way . She would want me to walk back into this house with a new bedroom . She was a very determined woman , you know , with her own ideas about everything . And she often said ...
... Lycentia like I did . She would want it just this way . She would want me to walk back into this house with a new bedroom . She was a very determined woman , you know , with her own ideas about everything . And she often said ...
Page 131
... Lycentia would have wanted it that way , she was always saying- ter 99 " Lycentia was the first one to bring it to my attention , Ches- - God rest her soul- and she was dead set against it . " Parker began to tremble , little rings of ...
... Lycentia would have wanted it that way , she was always saying- ter 99 " Lycentia was the first one to bring it to my attention , Ches- - God rest her soul- and she was dead set against it . " Parker began to tremble , little rings of ...
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... Lycentia passing . " " Yes , yes . " Parker nodded . “ Everything is all up in the air . When I think about the plans that Lycentia and I had . But she always said to me , ' Chester 999 " I'm sure , Chester , " Luther said as he stared ...
... Lycentia passing . " " Yes , yes . " Parker nodded . “ Everything is all up in the air . When I think about the plans that Lycentia and I had . But she always said to me , ' Chester 999 " I'm sure , Chester , " Luther said as he stared ...
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