In her final novel, "a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race" (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie...
On the island of Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s??there exists a proud, insular, nearly unassailable??community known as the Oval, made up of the best??and brightest of New York's and Boston's black??bourgeoisie. Dr. Clark Coles and his wife Corinne,??pillars of this community,...