Plum Bun
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
384 pages~6 hrs
“To claim her future, she must betray her past.”
Angela Murray abandons her past in Philadelphia to chase artistic stardom in the vibrant, high-stakes world of 1920s New York. By choosing to pass as white, she gains access to a life of luxury and opportunity, only to find that her new-found freedom comes with a devastating emotional cost.
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