The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor is a debut novel that tells the story of seven women who lives in Brewster Place, a low-income housing project were community gossip wraps around the neighborhood. A community filled with poverty, drugs, sexuality, love, and prejudges. Each individual struggles to survive in a neglected and deteriorating neighborhood.

Naylor traces the lives of seven black women from all walks of life and how each landed at Brewster’s Place. Each short story is an individual narrative come to intersect women’s strengths and struggles as they love, reminisce, hope, envy, hate, anger, and rejoice in the confines of the thin walls of Brewster Place. An complex novel that doesn’t shy away from taboo subject matters yet teaches you the true meaning of love and loss. This collection genuinely captured everyday moments, as well as the randomness and loneliness of tragedy and the proceeding brokenness it can leave in its wake.

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