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Another often overlooked classic penned during the Harlem Renaissance that offers just how complicated social categories of race, class, and gender can be in terms of important life decisions we make. I first read this novel during my undergraduate years over a decade ago, and I was absolutely thrilled when my son needed it for his own college course this past semester. I don't want to include any spoilers, but I will offer some advice:

Take your time, pay attention to the details in terms of what's said and what isn't; consider the relevance of how things are in today's society and apply the lessons learned in this novel as you go. Things aren't always what they may seem to be, and getting to know folks beyond what our expectations are of them is imperative for society to be what it actually should be. Love won't be love without it, and neither will we be who we should be.

Most of all, enjoy the experience, and perhaps go back and reread it again much later after some time has passed in order to ascertain what still rings true. Then, try and locate something else to read and mull over and repeat the process.


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The Wedding A Novel Dorothy West Books Reviews

The Wedding was an interesting read. I enjoyed the flashbacks and history leading up to the wedding. The characters could have been developed more, but I see that future books could be written to explore their development.
I wanted to know the outcome of the story, but almost everyone was unlikable. Trying to follow who was black and who was white, which seemed an important theme in the story, as well as who was who required looking back at the chart at the beginning of the book frequently.
The characters become your friends or family members that you can relate to or already know. A family line going back to slavery that identifies with no one finally find their way home.
This is a fast-moving novel, one which turns issues of class and race on its head. Written from the perspective of the Black Elite, West addresses the pitfalls of the color line and the drama involved in defining the gradations. Set in the 1950s, this slim little novel is packed with a role-reversal of what one would see in white literature of the time (concerning race).

In The Wedding (which has very little to do with an actual wedding), a family saga emerges and we are given a family tree with which to (re)construct the ideas of class and race within the Coles family. The book speaks to mixed marriage, "passing," and elitism to name just a few.

If for no other reason, this book should be read because its author was one of the first contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. Though she wrote this novel well into her old age, the prose comes across as very young and fresh. It's an intriguing piece that will give you something to think about.
Although eventually I could follow the storyline, the character development was not done well until more than half way through the book. The book ended abruptly, with little development at the end. The story was compelling. I hung in there and read the book mostly because it was my book club pick.
I really enjoyed reading this novel by Dorthy West. I thought this was going to be about an actual wedding. This book made me think about what would I have done during that particular time, being any one of those characters. The importance and complications of wealth, race, status, love and failures within all relationships were addressed in this need to read novel. I like Dorothy West’s style of writing. To add to my review, I was not expecting the tragedy at the end!
I enjoy this book very much. It's a thoughtful telling of how colorism and class affected African Americans within their own society and families in an era that history usually only focuses on how whites racism affected them. Full disclosure though, I actually didn't read the book until years after I saw the made for TV movie starring Halle Berry and produced by Oprah and released in the mid 90s. It's a MUCH more fleshed out, detailed telling of the story. This is rarely the case but because the plot of the book is so brief, I think the movie did a better job of telling the overall story. The flashbacks of Clark and Corinne's ancestors fit better into the overall plot as opposed to seeming more random/disjointed when put next to the present days leading up to the wedding. However the book does explain a lot of the characters inner motivations more eloquently, such as Lute and Gram. However the movie is extremely rare, having only aired on TV once over 20 years ago and hasn't been released on DVD in the United States. It is sometimes available on YouTube. The book is at it's best when it can be enjoyed with the move in my opinion.
Another often overlooked classic penned during the Harlem Renaissance that offers just how complicated social categories of race, class, and gender can be in terms of important life decisions we make. I first read this novel during my undergraduate years over a decade ago, and I was absolutely thrilled when my son needed it for his own college course this past semester. I don't want to include any spoilers, but I will offer some advice

Take your time, pay attention to the details in terms of what's said and what isn't; consider the relevance of how things are in today's society and apply the lessons learned in this novel as you go. Things aren't always what they may seem to be, and getting to know folks beyond what our expectations are of them is imperative for society to be what it actually should be. Love won't be love without it, and neither will we be who we should be.

Most of all, enjoy the experience, and perhaps go back and reread it again much later after some time has passed in order to ascertain what still rings true. Then, try and locate something else to read and mull over and repeat the process.