The Richer, the Poorer

On the heels of the bestseller success of her??novel The Wedding, Dorothy West,??the last surviving member of the Harlem??Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that??explore both the realism of everyday life, and the??fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one??woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the??universal themes and conflicts between poverty and??prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and??compiling writing that spans almost seventy years,??The Richer, The Poorer not only??affords an unparalleled window into the??African-American middle class, but also delves into the??richness of experience of "one of the finest writers??produced in this country during the Roaring??Twenties"(Book Page).