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The Living is Easy
The Living is Easy
Author: Dorothy West
One of the few novels published by a black woman during the 1940's, "The Living is Easy" is the story of Cleo Jericho Judson, a sharecropper's daughter who leaves the South to seek her fortune in Boston. Set in the comfortable Boston suburb of Brookline, this book is virtually unique in that it deals with class conflict within the black communit...  more »
ISBN: 37447
Pages: 347
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Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
Book Type: Paperback
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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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