Description
In the 1920s, Angela Murray—young, ambitious, and newly unmoored by loss—finds a startling possibility: she can pass as white. As she builds a new life in New York, her choices force her to confront the costs of reinvention, the fragility of belonging, and the complicated hunger for love, safety, and self-definition. This coming-of-age novel moves with clarity and emotional force, examining how race, class, and gender shape every relationship and every opportunity. With Jessie Redmon Fauset’s incisive, unsentimental storytelling, the book asks what we surrender—and what we reclaim—when identity is negotiated under the gaze of others.
Available Editions
paperback
Random House Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2025
336 pages
ISBN: 9780593731956
paperback
Beacon Press
Published Jan 1, 1990
379 pages
ISBN: 0807009091
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Details
First Published
1928
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset.