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1996, December 2005
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The Women of Brewster Place, July 1983
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1996
By: Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor, one of the most celebrated and successful black writers in recent history, has authored this fictionalized memoir of how an invasion of privacy can be taken to the extreme.

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December 2005
175 pages
ISBN: 0883782634
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Fiction

After having published critically-acclaimed novels like The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day, Naylor returns with 1996 . In this startling account, we find Naylor buying a house on St. Helena Island, off the coast of South Carolina. Here she seeks to enjoy life, relax, write in peace, and tend to her garden. However, Naylor's tranquility is ruined by a woman who feels threatened by her presence. This woman's fears spur a massive covert surveillance operation against Naylor in 1996.

For the author, this seems to be just another example of how racism usually translates into gross misunderstanding. This gut-wrenching will certainly be a talker.

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