Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

Book Overview

For readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman's journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City. Originally... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807009199
• ISBN13: 9780807009192
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Amazing

Fauset allows the reader to take an in-depth look at passing for white. Unlike the charcater in Danzy Sennas Caucasia, Fauset creates a main character who chooses to pass and lets the reader know every repercussion of that decision. Go out and get it!

Jessie Fauset is EXCELLENT!!!

I was so impressed with how Ms Fauset wrote Plum Bun, that upon completing the book I have been actively purchasing all of her other books that are in print. Her writing style proves that a good book is timeless. I highly recommend Plum Bun and There Is Confusion, which was so good I could not put it down..literally. I strongly urge all to get this woman's books post haste!! You will have some very satisfying reading hours.

Truly a Classic!

Ms. Fauset was one of the most underrated members of the Harlem Renaissance. Plum Bun is by far the strongest of her novels. I saw more in this story than simply a discussion of color and privilege, I was pleased by the complexity of the relationship between the two sisters in this novel. Ms. Fauset is one of my literary favorites, and a woman that I truly admire. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.

A good work by Ms. Fauset

I give PLUM BUN a positive review. I first noticed it at the bookstore where I work. The Harlem Renaissance is something great; I read all I can on it. This novel is quite representative of the era. About a month before seeing this book, I read THE POWER OF PRIDE, a coffee table book on the Harlem Renaissance which contained some wonderful photos. Having read ...PRIDE, I noticed that something about this particular edition of PLUM BUN really bothers me. The portrait drawing on the front of the book looks more like Nella Larsen than it does Jessie Fauset. Unless Ms.Marks and Ms.Edkins, the compilers of ...PRIDE, got their photos mixed up, the picture on the front of PLUM BUN is Nella Larsen--not Jessie Fauset.