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A Novel without a Moral

A Novel without a Moral

By Jessi Redmon Fauset
Foreword by Morgan Jerkins
Afterword by Deborah McDowell

By Jessi Redmon Fauset
Foreword by Morgan Jerkins
Afterword by Deborah McDowell

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Part of Celebrating Black Women Writers

Category: Literary Fiction

Category: Literary Fiction

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Mar 08, 2022 | ISBN 9780807006603

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    About Plum Bun

    For readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.

    Originally published in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young Black woman of mixed heritage who uses the advantages of her lighter skin to escaper her own life. Beginning with a childhood in her Black middle class Philadelphia neighborhood, Angela dreams of being a renowned painter. She believes she will only achieve this through whiteness and being a part of white society. Bestowed with the light skin of her mother, while her sister Virginia’s darker complexion resembles that of their father’s, Angela refuses to accept a life dictated by the limitations that come with her race and gender.

    Leaving behind her family and identity, Angela escapes to a roaring New York City where she befriends the art elites and presents herself as a white woman. Thrust into a world of seduction, betrayal, love, lust, and heartbreak, Angela soon discovers that to find true fulfillment within herself, she must accept and embrace her own identity—both her race and gender. Written with meticulous care and appreciation for the complicated nature of her characters, while also highlighting the beauty of every day Black life, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun raises important questions to inspire new readers.

    About Plum Bun

    Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don’t fade with the color of one’s skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.

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    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Mar 08, 2022 | 320 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780807006603

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Beacon Press
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    Praise

    “A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. A force to be reckoned with. She. Was. Amazing.”
    —Shonda Rhimes

    “One gets, with thought and study, lights on human character. The book is, therefore, well worth reading: not simply from its point of view, but from its human touch and interesting action and plot.”
    —W. E. B. Du Bois

    “An engrossing novel of women’s lives and experiences. . . . Jessie Redmon Fauset uses Angela’s development as the springboard to explore larger issues that have become regarded as central to Black women’s fiction: the experience of passing, the exploitation of women as sexual objects and thus a questioning of heterosexual relationships, the assertion of racial pride, and the primacy of female bonding.”
    —Mary Katherine Wainwright, Belles Lettres

    “A fascinating glimpse of a now-vanished Harlem culture.”
    —Rosalind Warren, New Directions for Women

    “A reminder of how entertaining good writing can be.”
    —Ernest R. Mercer, East St. Louis Monitor

    Table Of Contents

    Foreword by Morgan Jerkins

    Home

    Market

    Plum Bun

    Home Again

    Market Is Done

    Afterword by Deborah McDowell

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