After the Garden

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Imprint: Dutton Books (Jul 24, 1987)
Fiction, Hardcover, 324 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780453005388
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    Description of After the Garden


    Elzina Thompkins James, a young Black woman raised in the strict atmosphere of her over-protective grandmother’s rigid morality, begins an odyssey of growth and self-discovery in Jersey City during the forties and fifties after her marriage to a carefree man
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