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A rediscovered classic from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey passing as white in 1920s New York City and her quest for self-acceptance—with an introduction by Glory Edim, founder and author of Well-Read Black Girl.
Jessie Redmon Fauset was many things: a literary mentor, a prominent editor, and a trailblazing novelist. She began contributing essays to the NAACP’s publication, The Crisis, less than a year before W. E. B. Du Bois offered her a job at its helm. From there, she shaped the Harlem Renaissance—both with her own writing and with the writing she supported.
Originally published in 1929, Plum Bun has deserved a reprint for decades. It has deserved to share a shelf with the voices Fauset herself discovered in the 1920s: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and others.
- Recommended by Tess / Blurb by Sarah @ A Good Used Book
Sarah Bofenkamp is a queer reader, writer and librarian in her hometown of Palouse, Washington.