Through the Ivory Gate African American & Black Studies and her idea of romantic

and her idea of romantic love that could change her life forever

sparks fly

it’s that no one escapes love unscathed

Chastity is the only child of a prominent pastor and has been raised with privilege

Through the Ivory Gate African American & Black Studies and her idea of romanticA debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self discoverynavigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career. Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent. Washington Post Book World When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist in residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means