Fiction1959

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall
Overview
Region

Diaspora

Barbados/USA

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

Selina Boyce comes of age in Brooklyn's Barbadian immigrant community, navigating between cultures.

Literary Significance

One of first novels depicting Black immigrant experience; influenced later writers

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