Johnson, Sadeqa,

The house of Eve : a novel / by Sadeqa Johnson - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - 369 pages ; 24 cm - Reese's book club .

"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"--

BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund.

9781982197360 1982197366


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.)--Fiction


Romance fiction
Historical fiction
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Romance fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

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