Sadeqa Johnson

House of Eve

4.5 because I dont think Ruby truly had a happy ending. I mean she did get the life she imagined from the start of the book. But after everything she had endured..I love the Dual POVS! Soon as something gets good in Ruby's story,next chapter its Eleanor & youre like omg wait!😂 Its a book with history that will stay with me forever. Nothing like I've ever read before! When she said their stories collide in the most unexpected ways she's right!! At the start you're wondering when they'll meet then as time goes on they dont until years later and by then its over. Read Fallen Grace as well its a short story about Bubbles!!  

Licious💕

Melissa Palmer

I love this author's writing. She breaks your heart with her storylines but you are sad when it's over. Highly recommend!

Ruby is working hard to pull herself out of generational poverty that has plagued her family in Philadelphia. Eleanor, attending Howard College, meets William, a rich black man, studying to be a doctor, and falls in love. 

Ruby becomes pregnant and her life is suddenly upended. Eleanor, now married, longs for a child. And their lives are about to connect in an unexpected way.

This is such a poignant, heartbreaking, and hopeful story. I loved how it explored racism and the various experiences of Black people in the 1950s. 

Cheri McElroy

Ruby is working hard to pull herself out of generational poverty that has plagued her family in Philadelphia. Eleanor, attending Howard College, meets William, a rich black man, studying to be a doctor, and falls in love. 

Ruby becomes pregnant and her life is suddenly upended. Eleanor, now married, longs for a child. And their lives are about to connect in an unexpected way.

This is such a poignant, heartbreaking, and hopeful story. I loved how it explored racism and the various experiences of Black people in the 1950s. 

House of Eve

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