Woman's Place

The compelling, beautifully told story of three black women who meet at a New England college in the late sixties and form a friendship that will guide them through the changes, the joys, and the tears of the coming years.

Literature & Fiction

Golden, Marita

Literary

Ballantine Books

Migrations of the Heart

Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America. While studying in America, she met Femi, an African man. They fell in love and she journeyed to Nigeria to become his wife. In Africa, plunged into a culture so very different from her own, but one she felt she should understand, Marita Golden learned about both her own new sprawling Nigerian family and Nigeria's large American community. But Femi, once her strength, began to insist she fit herself into the strict mold of his society and assume the submissive role of a Nigerian wife. In her new, strange surroundings, Marita Golden discovered that home is not simply a destination, but rather something you must carry always inside you. "A marvelous journey . . . powerful imagery . . . distinctly drawn characters come alive, events pulsate with energy." -- The Washington Post Book World

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

"A novel of impressive artistry and power." The Washington Post Caught in the web of history, generations of an African-American family play out their parts on a world stage that constantly changes, protected always by the love of one another, which never will.

Long Distance Life: The Moving Saga of an African-American Family, from the Great Migration North to the Urban Nightmare of Today

Parenting & Relationships

"An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and foregiveness...Golden's style is modern, refreshing and accurately captures a slice of African-American life." (St. Petersburg Times) In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1963, two very different African-American women meet, each to discover in the other an elegant completion of herself. Jessie, running from her sexually abusive father and distant mother, is a born actress. In the movement she discovers an unknown world of personal freedom that could shape her into an extraordinary talent or destroy her from within. Macon, beautiful, fearless, and brilliant, knows she is too good to settle for less than she's worth, but her activism threatens the man she loves. In a vital time of politics and passion, dedication and distress, two women struggle to recreate themselves and their world--and learn to love the fight.

And Do Remember Me: A Novel

United States

Random House Publishing Group

In The Edge of Heaven, Marita Golden has fashioned a deceptively simple story of a family whose lives have been shattered by a single moment of angry carelessness--told through the eyes of Teresa Singletary, a twenty-year-old college student with an overwhelming emotional burden; her father, Ryland; and her mother, Lena, whose return to her own mother's home has precipitated a reckoning with Teresa. Together they all struggle to find a place to re-learn each other--somewhere that transcends the painful reality etched into their souls--only to discover that even the darkest tragedy is rivaled by love's transforming light.

The Edge of Heaven (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

One World/Ballantine

The compelling story of three black women who meet at a New England college in the late sixties and form a friendship that will guide them through the changes, the joys, and the tears of the coming years Faith, small-boned and delicate, the daughter of a strong-willed mother and a father she no longer remembers, longs for the one experience that will show her to herself. Serena, a passionate and outspoken radical, has an intense political commitment and pride in her African roots, which will lead her to find a life on a continent far away. And Crystal, a poet from girlhood, has a long love affair with words that will be put to the ultimate test when she must explain to her father her love for a man of another race. Praise for A Woman’s Place “A radical new talent . . . The poignancy invites comparison to The Color Purple.”—New Woman “A book that should be bought, read, and cherished, because it is a story of hope, a story of triumph and, above all, a testimony to resilience.”—The Philadelphia Tribune

A Woman's Place: A Novel

A Black woman discusses her personal search for identity in Africa and her attempts to come to terms with her parents, her Afro-American heritage, her own family, her career, and her own identity as a Black and a woman

DOUBLEDAY

Three women meet at college in the late sixties, become friends, and face difficulties as each confronts the passions, dreams, and chaos of their generations

A Woman's Place

A woman flees the South of the 1920's to join the Black migration Northward, marries a black rationalist and has a daughter, who returns to the South to fight for civil rights and find her own identity

Long Distance Life

Jessie flees from her oppressive home into the heat of Mississippi's "Freedom Summer," where she champions for civil rights and finds a lifelong friend in Macon, a woman who supports her through years of triumph and turmoil. National ad/promo. Tour.

And Do Remember Me

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Woman's Place

Migrations of the Heart

Long Distance Life: The Moving Saga of an African-American Family, from the Great Migration North to the Urban Nightmare of Today

And Do Remember Me: A Novel

The Edge of Heaven (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

A Woman's Place: A Novel

Migrations of the Heart

A Woman's Place

Long Distance Life

And Do Remember Me