The House of Eve
The House of Eve From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring, beautiful, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to…
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The House of Eve
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring, beautiful, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 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. 1950s Philadelphia: 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 William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his par-ents don't let just anyone into their fold. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her