Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset. paperback edition. ISBN: 0046442009195.

Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movements most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that dont fade with the color of ones skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.