Bailey’s Café (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Gloria Naylor
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Child rearing or parenting, United States or Americans, Wives, Racism, 1940’s, Betrayal, Prejudices or antipathies, Prostitution or prostitutes, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Roads, streets, or highways, Virginity or virgins, World War II
- Locales: United States
BAILEY’S CAFE has a different quality from that of Gloria Naylor’s first book, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, a slice of urban realism which established her reputation. While she continues to use a wealth of detail in order to bring her settings and her characters to live, in this new novelNaylor has overlaid her realism with magic. For example, the cafe where her characters gather seems to have no specific geographical location; it is as accessible to a fleeing Ethiopian child as to a native of Chicago. Similarly, while Eve’s bordello can always be reached from the front of the...
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