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The house of Eve : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson.

By: Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023Description: 369 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781982197360
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23/eng/20221209
LOC classification:
  • PS3610.O3758 H68 2023
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and grant her the life she's been searching for.
List(s) this item appears in: Reese's Book Club
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC JOHN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 04/04/2024 31906001240127

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and grant her the life she's been searching for.

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