02507cam a2200517 i 4500 1365390402 MeVbMML 20240627124141.0 230125t20232023nyu e 000 f eng d 9781982197360 1982197366 (OCoLC)1365390402 (OCoLC)1330895383 (OCoLC)1367880319 AJM 813/.6 23/eng/20221209 J629 .h Johnson, Sadeqa, author 17516 The house of Eve : a novel / by Sadeqa Johnson First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023 ©2023 369 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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. Motherhood Fiction 11843 African Americans Fiction 10388 Married women Fiction 17517 Self-realization in women Fiction 680 Nineteen fifties Fiction 17518 African Americans Fiction. sears 10388 Man-woman relationship Fiction. sears 9556 Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction 6883 Washington (D.C.) Fiction 6017 Romance fiction 51 Historical fiction 129 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Domestic fiction. lcgft 61 Romance fiction. lcgft 51 Psychological fiction. lcgft 856 Novels. lcgft 50 Reese's book club 12576 .b178317834 ddc BOOK 29798 29798 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-06-27 27.99 4 JOHN 66288 2025-08-28 2025-03-14 2024-06-27 BOOK 1