The Wedding: A Novel

The Story

The publicationááof The Wedding by Dorothy West,ááthe last surviving member of the HarlemááRenaissance, was not only a landmark literary event, but aáácommercial success as well. Readers across Americaááresponded to West's delicat weaving of North andááSouth, black and white, past and present in thisáá'fascinating and engrossing tale'áá(People) of race and class set in Martha'sááVineyard.In her first novel in forty-seven years,ááWest offers a window into the rise of the blackáámiddle class as she lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, The Wedding is Dorothy West's crowning achievement, and one of the last books edited for Doubleday by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.