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The Living Is Easy
The Living Is Easy
Author: Dorothy West
In this semi-autobiographical tale, a satire of upper-crust black Bostonians, the strong-willed, light-skinned Cleo Judson -- who is modeled on West's mother -- tries to control the life of her darker-skinned daughter, and ends her own marriage to a former slave who is now "the Black Banana King" of Boston.
ISBN-13: 9780405019425
ISBN-10: 0405019424
Publication Date: 6/1969
Pages: 347
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Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Book Type: Hardcover
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One of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s, The Living is Easy tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of southern sharecroppers, who wants to become a member of Boston's early twentieth-century elite. Married to the "black banana king," she manipulates her three sisters into living with her, along with their children--but not their husbands--in an attempt to recreate her original family.


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