Linden Hills
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor is a reprint edition published by Penguin on March 4, 1986, featuring 320 pages in English. This novel presents a nuanced exploration of an affluent black community, drawing parallels to the author’s previous work, The Women of Brewster Place. Linden Hills serves as a backdrop for examining the complexities of success and the unspoken criteria that govern who belongs in this seemingly idealized neighborhood.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the intricacies of wealth and social status within the African American experience. Naylor’s work invites reflection on the American dream and its potential costs, likening the community’s dynamics to Dante’s Inferno. Through this lens, the book reveals the underlying tensions and aspirations that shape the lives of its residents, offering a thought-provoking commentary on identity and belonging.
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A powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor (1950-2016), the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place
A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of Wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of “making it.” Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there – and that they want to be among them. In a resonant novel that takes as it’s model Dante’s Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream – that the price of success may very well be on a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.
“With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review
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