{"product_id":"the-wedding-9780385471442","title":"The Wedding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her final novel, \"a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin this inner circle of blue-vein society, we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions. Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community.\u003cp\u003eWith elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e West, Dorothy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385471442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Dorothy West","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39401973121099,"sku":"9780385471442","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_0fc8f26b-ea34-4dbd-b905-f59d05676f46.jpg?v=1623769518","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-wedding-9780385471442","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}