Plum Bun, Jessi Redmon Fauset
Plum Bun, Jessi Redmon Fauset
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Plum Bun
A Novel without a Moral

Author: Jessi Redmon Fauset, Morgan Jerkins

Narrator: Jasmin Walker

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2022

Synopsis

Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.

About The Author

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was literary editor of Crisis from 1919 to 1926. She is the author of four novels, including The Chinaberry Tree.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sasha on January 09, 2018

What if Sister Carrie were black? ish? Harlem Renaissance author Jessie Redmon Fauset reminds me of no one more than Theodore Dreiser. Both are concerned with single women trying to make it on their own terms, and neither is particularly skilled at writing. Dreiser is better - more powerful in the e......more

Goodreads review by Dante on July 17, 2021

This book feels so modern and fresh that, if it wasn't for the cool-girl-from-the-1920's writing style, I'd say it was published today. The characters are all amazingly layered, their relationships compelling, and the whole narrative had a movie-like aspect to it that it makes me sad that we're unli......more

Goodreads review by Deidre on September 18, 2011

1929. The Harlem Renaissance: the high-swinging days of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. These names produced some of the most recognizable and justifiable literature in the 20th century. Stories of jazz, sexuality and freedom bloomed from the minds of these poets and novelist......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on June 03, 2020

I loved this novel. It’s a classic that I’d been wanting to read for ages. But it wasn’t exactly easy to find, and they didn’t have it in my local library. Written in the 20s, it’s a clear picture of life for a woman in NYC, on both sides of the color line. The main character, Angela Murray, grows u......more

Goodreads review by Ari on January 04, 2015

IQ "I don't mind a man's not marrying me; but I can't forgive him if he thinks I'm not good enough to marry him. [...]It's wrong for men to have both money and power; they're bound to make some woman suffer" Paulette, 128 Obviously this novel was going to discuss race and the emotional as well logist......more

Quotes

“A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. A force to be reckoned with. She. Was. Amazing.”
—Shonda Rhimes

“One gets, with thought and study, lights on human character. The book is, therefore, well worth reading: not simply from its point of view, but from its human touch and interesting action and plot.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois

“An engrossing novel of women’s lives and experiences. . . . Jessie Redmon Fauset uses Angela’s development as the springboard to explore larger issues that have become regarded as central to Black women’s fiction: the experience of passing, the exploitation of women as sexual objects and thus a questioning of heterosexual relationships, the assertion of racial pride, and the primacy of female bonding.”
—Mary Katherine Wainwright, Belles Lettres

“A fascinating glimpse of a now-vanished Harlem culture.”
—Rosalind Warren, New Directions for Women

“A reminder of how entertaining good writing can be.”
—Ernest R. Mercer, East St. Louis Monitor

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