The house of Eve : a novel / by Sadeqa Johnson
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 369 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781982197360; 1982197366Subject(s): Motherhood -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | Married women -- Fiction | Self-realization in women -- Fiction | Nineteen fifties -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | Man-woman relationship -- Fiction | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction | Washington (D.C.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Romance fiction | Historical fiction | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Romance fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Novels. DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright... Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and grant her the life she's been searching for"-- Provided by publisher
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"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright... Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and grant her the life she's been searching for"-- Provided by publisher
BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund.
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