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Description

1. xii, 288 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

1. The ambitions, loves and complexes of a rich black girl. On a psychiatrist's couch she realizes her mother did not die, but left her family for a white man and rather than acknowledge the fact, the father pronounced her dead. By the author of Betsey Brown.

Subject

1. African American women artists > New York > Fiction
2. Psychotherapist and patient > New York > Fiction
3. Young women > New York > Fiction
4. African Americans > Mississippi > Fiction
5. African American women artists > Fiction
6. Psychotherapist and patient > Fiction
7. African Americans > Fiction
8. Young women > Fiction
9. Queens (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
10. Mississippi > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Psychological fiction.
2. Fiction
3. Psychological fiction

Contents

1. Room in the Dark I -- Fawns of the Diaspora Court Liliane in Paris -- Room in the Dark II -- "I Usedta Drink, Smoke and Do the Hoochie-Koo" -- Room in the Dark III -- "El Bochinche" es que only Fe Cortijo Knows -- Room in the Dark IV -- And Where is Garnett Mimms? -- Room in the Dark V -- I Know Where Kansas City Is -- Room in the Dark VI -- Zoom Went the Strings of Liliane's Heart -- Room in the Dark VII -- I Know Where the E Train Stops -- Room in the Dark VIII -- "Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby" -- Room in the Dark IX -- Every Time My Lil World Seems Blue -- Room in the Dark X -- "That's Why I Love Her So" -- Room in the Dark XI -- There's No Use Cryin' "Forever" -- Room in the Dark XII -- Lollie Struts Her Stuff Thru "The Sea of Love".

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain