Sappho Clark-beautiful, mysterious, Southern-arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho's financial independence; Dora Smith admires Sappho's quiet self-possession; and Will Smith, Dora's brother, falls madly in love with Sappho. But as Sappho enters the Smiths' community, it becomes clear that her beauty is a lure to bad actors, including someone who entertains dark suspicions about her past. . .
A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston's thriving, politically active middle-class Black community, Contending Forces is an unjustly forgotten American classic.
| ISBN: | 9781454951544 |
| Publication date: | 21st March 2024 |
| Author: | Pauline E Hopkins |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Rediscovered Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Historical romance Ethnic studies |