Brown girl, brownstones.

Description:

"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and poverty that surround her."--Page 4 of cover.

subjects: Young women,  West Indian Americans,  Fiction,  Feminist fiction,  Domestic fiction,  Fictie,  Caribische literatuur,  1000blackgirlbooks,  Young women, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, women,  Indians of north america, fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, general,  Women, biography,  Barbadian Americans,  Literature,  Women,  African Americans,  African American women,  West indian americans--fiction,  Young women--fiction,  Ps3563.a7223 b7 2006,  813/.54

Places: New York (N.Y.)