A powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor
(1950-2016), the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of
Brewster Place
A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies
Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other
trappings of Wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black
communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of
"making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are,
everyone knows that only certain people get to live there - and that
they want to be among them. In a resonant novel that takes as it's model
Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American
dream - that the price of success may very well be on a journey down to
the lowest circle of hell.
"With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among
the leading contemporary writers of fiction." -Los Angeles Times Book
Review