Helpful Score: 3
As others have mentioned, the main character is incredibly passive. She lets others make almost all decisions for her. Perhaps this is to show how limited a young woman's options were.
The writing is somewhat flat. If there were not some sex and a small amount of profanity I would say it feels like a book written for a child.
It was interesting to read what NYC was like in this social group at that time. Particularly interesting to me was the description of a mid-priced department store bravely choosing to court "coloured women" as customers, and the fuss this creates.
An odd little book, while I wasn't enthralled, I suspect it is a story that will stay with me, as at the ending the main character has a difficult decision to make. And in the end, it is once again made for her.
The writing is somewhat flat. If there were not some sex and a small amount of profanity I would say it feels like a book written for a child.
It was interesting to read what NYC was like in this social group at that time. Particularly interesting to me was the description of a mid-priced department store bravely choosing to court "coloured women" as customers, and the fuss this creates.
An odd little book, while I wasn't enthralled, I suspect it is a story that will stay with me, as at the ending the main character has a difficult decision to make. And in the end, it is once again made for her.
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