Plum Bun

A young woman hides her African American identity in this semiautobiographical novel by a literary “force to be reckoned with” of the Harlem Renaissance (Shonda Rhimes).
 
A young girl, Angela Murray lives in Philadelphia’s black community, but after losing both of her parents, she decides to leave her sister behind and move to New York. With her light skin tone, she can pass for white and, perhap...