A reviewed Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s …
Maud Martha
5 stars
A perfect, sadly underread classic, like just about every mid-century novel by a US Black woman writer. All the semi-realized and failed promises of freedom in the postwar US as told in crisp prose through the aspirations and disappointments of one Black woman's life.