Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Cover:Paperback The New York Times Book

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James adopts the hybrid persona of a "gangsta nerd"--dealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that untangle the mysteries of Einstein's relativity theory

But then Maddox changes the tune

In this accessible and important antiracist work

• 2006 Skipping Stones Magazine Honor Award Multicultural and International Awareness category winner

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Cover:Paperback The New York Times BookA rediscovered classic from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black womans journey passing as white in 1920s New York City and her quest for self acceptancewith an introduction by Glory Edim, founder and author of Well Read Black Girl. Jessie Redmon Fauset is one of the literary titans and foremost tastemakers of the Harlem Renaissancehired by W. E. B. Du Bois to edit The Crisis , she helped popularize writers like Nella Larsen, Claude McKay,