Helpful Score: 3
...a powerful portrayal of seven black women living in a bleak inner-city neighborhood. Author Gloria Naylor reveals the cruelty of their lives without sacrificing their strengths and their hearts.
Helpful Score: 2
A beautiful, important book. Good writing like this has the power to change the world by opening hearts to truth. Well worth reading!
Helpful Score: 2
Chronicles the lives of several women living on Brewster Place--how then ended up there and the forging of friendships among them. You won't forget this book!
Helpful Score: 1
Been a while since I've read this, but I recall it as a well-written, poignant look into the lives of women brought together by the street on which they live. Reminded me of Amy Tan, just a bit.
Helpful Score: 1
A NOVEL IN SEVEN STORIES
"Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence, and human, very human, courage and sturdiness."--Chicago Sun-Times
"Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence, and human, very human, courage and sturdiness."--Chicago Sun-Times
