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Women of Brewster Place

De: Gloria Naylor
Narrado por: Tonya Pinkins
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The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones

“[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Brims with inventiveness—and relevance.”—NPR's Fresh Air

In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this touching and unforgettable listen.

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"[Naylor's] ardent inventiveness as a storyteller and the complex individuality she gives to each of her seven main characters make the novel so much more than a contrived literary assembly line. . . . Deftly, Naylor gathers all these individual stories into one climactic narrative that works through the reader via a word-by-word sense of horror and outrage. . . . The Women of Brewster Place, born of the details of a particular time and community, also turns out to be one of those, yes, universal stories depicting how we, the fallen, seek grace.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

“The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison.”—Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land

“Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human—very human—courage and sturdiness.”—Chicago Sun-Times
Beautiful Storytelling • Powerful Imagery • Excellent Narration • Interlocking Stories • Atmospheric Performance
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The book is very well written and easy to follow. It’s extremely depressing though. Don’t expect many resolutions.

Great book

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The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor was first published in 1982. It tells the stories of seven African-American women living in poverty in an unnamed norther US city during the 1970s. The book is told in interlocking, connected short stories, with each one focusing on a different woman. Naylor weaves their relationships and their neighborhood together with each new story. The place is bleak and sad but their lives are rich, real and full.

Mattie Michael is the matriarch of Brewster Place. She is often meddling, but she guides the women and aids every decision made in the neighborhood. Kiswana is the name chosen by a woman who used to be called Melanie Brown. She is a college-dropout, feminist and activist. She leads the neighborhood into an organized association. Her influence is especially helpful to Cora Lee who is a single mother to eight and living in a two bedroom apartment. After seeing a live production of A Midsummer Night's Dream we have hope that Cora Lee's life is moving in a new direction. Also on the block are Sophie, who is nosy and intrusive, a gay couple (both teachers) named Lorraine and Teresa, and Mattie's friend Etta Mae. Sophie acts as an antagonist, and attempts to create tension between the other neighbors. When Kiswana determines to hold a fundraiser/block party we get to see all the women interact with one another a well as many previous residents. We also see how hard life was for the gay couple during that era.

I would love to find the adaptation done 30ish years ago if anyone knows where it can be viewed.

a classic for a reason

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I really appreciated the way she went in to different voices for different characters.

Good story, excellent narration.

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Beautifully read. I do wish the audio could have removed the sounds of the reader’s mouth (lips/dry tongue/etc). It was distracting in the slower more poetic parts. But overall such a well written tale of the hardships some women endure and performed exquisitely.

Like poetry

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love it! great narrator and great writing. I enjoyed the miniseries on television and the book.

wonderful book

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The individual women give and take from personal experiences around the men they've encountered. They either build, or hide within walls---struggling through these experiences. After tragedy strikes this man, they find the sense and strength to go on.

Sense for Suvival

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The deep dive into each character in how they intertwined with one another was truly captivating. The struggles the losses were absolutely heartbreaking. This book was written and performed in such a way that the reader could feel every detail as if they were in the scene. I think every woman who reads this book will find a piece of themselves in one or more of the characters regardless if they’re on Brewster Place or Park Avenue or anywhere in between.

Captivating and heartbreaking

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Gloria Naylor truly constructed a world full of women society makes invisible (often by choice). Black women who are subject to so many systems of racism and patriarchy, but still find a way to survive and live. Tonya Pinkins is an unsung talent in her ability to create a persona of each character, and truly weave her voice work in with the worlds of Naylor. This was awesomely sad, but I'm so glad I got to listen to these stories. It couldn't have been done better.

Wonderfully written and performed

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I am reading this book for a course and also have the print copy of this same edition, however upon cross comparison the recording skips over alot of conversation and story in the print version. Be aware

Good Reading! But This isn't the complete novel.

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Exquisite narration, actually sounds like a black woman during the time period which enhances immersion

The narrator gives it a certain charm

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