Hello my lovely readers!
Oh. My. Goodness.
This book would NOT LET ME GO.
I loved this book so much, I actually surprised myself! Let's just get right into it.
"I’m sick of planning my life with regard to being coloured . I’m not a bit ashamed of my race. I don't mind in the least that once we were slaves. Every race in the world has at some time occupied a servile position. But I do mind having to take it into consideration every time I want to eat outside of my home, every time I enter a theatre, every time I think of a profession."
SUMMARY
Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset was written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. It follows Angela who grows up with her Black family in Philadelphia. However, both Angela and her mother are light enough to pass as white.
When Angela gets a taste of passing after her mother accidentally does so one day, Angela moves to New York and lives her life as a white woman. But she soon finds that life in New York and living life as white woman isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
