As much a historical document as it is a novel this 1946 winner of theHoughton Mifflin Literary Fellowship is the poignant and unblinkingly honeststory of a you... » 

As much a historical document as it is a novel this 1946 winner of theHoughton Mifflin Literary Fellowship is the poignant and unblinkingly honeststory of a young black womans struggle to live and raise her son by herselfamid the violence poverty and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. «