Everyone should read this book that made me want to tear my hair

My colleague Erica Ezeifedi has a big writing of this book in the club, which you should read, and I almost decided not to read Harlem Rhapsody When Erica clearly indicated that the case between Fauset and Wood Web occupies the front of the stage. I find stories about exhausting and exasperating cases – it is generally not my jam. However, because I was so obviously late in my knowledge of Fauset and I wanted to know someone who was an integral part of the success of the authors whose books remain important for me and many others to date, I decided to get back and put myself in it.

Well, no lie was told. The case was an important part of the book, and I had trouble with the way wood treated Fauset and how Fauset returned to him again and again. I could also have breathed the shoulder of Fauset’s mother, hooking her while she delivered a real speech about this sentenced relationship with her adult daughter in Lovelorn. I wanted someone to give wood to speak. However, I was so fascinated by the image of Harlem of the 1920s, dazzling with the creativity of black artists and creatives who gave time such an appropriate name. The authors Fauset “born” like their editor, mentor and insightful writing partner are so part of the Western literary canon (whether or not listed as such), I have never imagined them as young uncertain with great potential until I read this book. It is really a wonder that this only woman saw this potential, made power movements and brought them down to the avenue towards success at a time when African-Americans had so few opportunities and faced a racist rooting in the edition. It is Also a wonder how it has accomplished as a literary editor of The crisisNAACP Magazine founded by wood. It makes me deeply sad that Fauset is not as much a familiar name after all that she did – the woman wrote a successful book that I had never heard of! – And I am deeply grateful to Victoria Christopher Murray for having brought her to the light where she belongs.

In addition, Erica had so much to emphasize that it is the best reading club of the year so far. I mean, the dish: fauset and wood run in New York and Paris like a pair of love birds, the dynamics of power, work and family drama, the life of literary icons, glory And disorder? Come on.