The Living is Easy

This stunning first novel by the author ofThe Weddingis one of only a handful of novels published by Black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judsondaughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of “Black Banana King” Bart Judson. Cleo seeks to recreate her original family by urging her sisters and their children to live with her, while rearing her daughter to be a member of Boston’s black elite.

Dorothy West(1907-1998) shared the covetedOpportunityshort-story prize with Zora Neale Hurston in 1927 and later moved to New York, where she became the youngest of the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance. West founded and edited the influential African American literary magazine theChallengeandNew Challenge. Also the author ofThe WeddingandThe Richer, The Poorer, she lived on Martha’s Vineyard until her death.

• Item Weight:1.08 pounds
• Paperback:376 pages
• ISBN-10:1558611479
• ISBN-13:9781558611474
• Product Dimensions:5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Publisher:The Feminist Press at CUNY; Reprint Edition (July 1, 1995)
• Language:English