The Chinaberry Tree - by Jessie Redmon Fauset (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Within the tranquil setting of a small New Jersey town in the early 1900s, this novel by a noted Harlem Renaissance author explores tempestuous issues that range from racial identity to adultery, incest, and deception.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her bad blood, inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent, she longs for the respectability of a conventional marriage. Laurentine's vivacious and self-confident cousin, Melissa, also aspires to marry up. But a family secret shadows Melissa's dreams and ambitions as she approaches an explosive revelation.<br>African-American editor, poet, essayist, and novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance. An editor of the NAACP magazine <i>The Crisis, </i> she was also an editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine, <i>The</i> <i>Brownies' Book. </i>Her third novel, <i>The Chinaberry Tree, </i>draws upon elements of Greek tragedy in its powerful depiction of interracial love and marriage. The tale also offers a modern perspective on the struggle of its African-American heroines toward self-knowledge.<br>
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