Folly: A Novel

Folly: A Novel
ISBN-10
155861415X
ISBN-13
9781558614154
Series
Folly
Category
Fiction
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2016-08-15
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Author
Maureen Brady

Description

Folly is a working-class, lesbian novel about black and white women who go on strike in a North Carolina factory townand two of them fall in love. Tillie Olsen said that this novel "speaks with an authenticity, a force, a caring that deepens and enlarges us." Jewelle Gomez noted that this is a novel about "work and passion," in which "women bond together for strength, for a better life, and for love."

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