This program was on May 24, 2022

Event type:
Books & Authors
Target audience:
Adults
Seniors
by Ann Petry
Lutie Johnson is a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son are met with frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, it became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies. The PBS NewsHour Now Read This book for May 2020.