This novel involves several revolving stories related to a place more than a specific set of circumstances of plot. Brewster Place is a sort of government housing project equivalent to Linden Hills, the planned community of a later Gloria Naylor novel. If you read Hidden Figures you already learned about the planned communities of the early 20th century and the ways in which race impacted those developments. If you’ve read Toni Morrison you know how those communities survived white onslaught, developed their own character and quirks, […]