Gloria Naylor
Birth date: January 25, 1950
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When I started my ex-pat adventure, I had to select just a few books to take with me due to space limitations. This was one. Nearly 20 years after first reading it, it is still a pleasure to read. Naylor has created a vivid world with many depths, and I discover something new every time I read th...
A gorgeous novel with compelling characters and several interesting plot lines. I enjoyed most how Naylor effectively utilized symbols which could very easily have been cliche.
A riveting first novel that dares to write about the stuff of melodrama, and yet never slips into sentimentality. It accomplishes this because the stories are all too real. The tragedy of these women's lives we see even today in the news and on the streets around us. These are the kinds of stories t...
I loved Naylor's earlier books, but this one didn't get the best reviews when it came out. Picked it up this week in a booksale and devoured it in an afternoon. Loved it, as I had her earlier books. Her characters have great voices, and she paints great little visions of the lives of each of them...
Books Read in the Past:At the time of its writing, this provoked a great deal of discussion. The intersecting stories of different women living on Brewster Place form a novel-in-sections that, though it has a workshop-y structural feel, generally works effectively. Brewster Place itself is more than...
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