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Original Title:	Linden Hills
ISBN:	0140088296 (ISBN13: 9780140088298)
Edition Language:	English

Linden Hills

Gloria Naylor

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 2294 Users | 129 Reviews

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A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there—and that they want to be among them.

Once people get to Linden Hills, the quest continues, more subtle, but equally fierce: the goal is a house on Tupelo Drive, the epitome of achievement and visible success. No one notices that the property on Tupelo Drive goes back on sale quickly; no one questions why there are always vacancies at Linden Hills.

In a resonant novel that takes as its model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream—that the price of success may very well be a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.

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Title	:	Linden Hills
Author	:	Gloria Naylor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	March 4th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Classics. American. African American Literature

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Ratings: 4.03 From 2294 Users | 129 Reviews

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Two young black poets, at least one of them gay, seek for deeper truths in the ultimate buppy enclave AND on the other side of the tracks. Some passages are great -- the wedding, the hallucinating man, the childhood scenes with auntie -- but the countdown to Christmas falls a day short of pay-day and the recurring "Jane Eyre"-like tale of the wife locked up in the basement never quite works. (You wish those recipes/photos revealed a bit more to captive and reader alike.)

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The best characters, our tour guides through Linden Hills, don't get enough story. Lester aka Shit and White Willie are poets and proud of their identity and broke, and they are humorous, alternately spikey and affectionate with one another. Overall it is a rich in its examination of personhood, race, and the cost of upward mobility but the story can be turgid. The rest of the book cycles down the hill, like Dante touring hell, and it gets worse and worse. I found it all intriguing but was left

"Fences...Even at the university: big, stone fences - and why? The gates are open, so it's not to keep anybody out or in. Why fences?...To get you used to the idea that what they have in there is different, special. Something to be separated from the rest of the world. They get you thinking fences, man, dont you see it? Then when theyve fenced you in from six years old till youre twenty-six, they can let you out because youre ready to believe that what theyve given you up here, their version of

"Fences...Even at the university: big, stone fences - and why? The gates are open, so it's not to keep anybody out or in. Why fences?...To get you used to the idea that what they have in there is different, special. Something to be separated from the rest of the world. They get you thinking fences, man, dont you see it? Then when theyve fenced you in from six years old till youre twenty-six, they can let you out because youre ready to believe that what theyve given you up here, their version of

This is the sort of book that should be required reading, especially for college-level literature courses. It paints a very believable picture of black upper-class life. The story itself was suspenseful and, at times, grotesque and heart-wrenching. Gloria Naylor really knows how to write about mental anguish - there were times when I had to put the book down. The ending was sad yet satisfying.

"If anything was the problem with Linden Hills, it was that nothing seemed to be what it really was. Everything was turned upside down in that place." This is most definitely a book I'd deem a necessary inclusion in the "Essential Gloria Naylor Reads". This is another amazing read. I read Gloria's Mama Day when I was young and probably didn't have the capacity to appreciate such books. Having read that one book, I kind of put her books to the side for decades as books that I was not too fond of