{"covers": [774555], "first_publish_date": "1931", "key": "/works/OL3492539W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL583194A"}}], "subjects": ["African American women", "Fiction", "Women", "Fiction, family life", "African americans, fiction", "Domestic fiction", "Fiction, general", "Man-woman relationships, fiction", "African Americans"], "title": "The chinaberry tree", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Chinaberry Tree (1931), Fauset's third novel, is a tale of the lives and loves of two generations of African-American women. Its seemingly quiet small-town setting is the backdrop for such bold and explosive issues as adultery, incest, miscegenation, lust, envy, and deception.\n\nThe story focuses on two women: Laurentine Strange, the beautiful daughter of a common-law interracial union, tormented by the idea that life has passed her by because of her \"bad blood\"; and her cousin Melissa Paul, a self-confident teenager to whom even darker secrets are revealed."}, "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:42:29.764568"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-25T07:53:50.153367"}}