Wedding - Dorothy West

With A Introduction By Diana Evans 'a Writer Of Huge Compassion And Acute Observation, And Also Of Dazzling Style. Her Work Is More Relevant Than Ever' Diana Evans 'timelessly Cinematic, With Painterly Visual Descriptions And Pitch-perfect Dialogue That Ranges Across Class, Region, Race, Age, And Gender' Emma Garman, Paris Review Set On A Bucolic Marthas Vineyard In The 1950s, The Wedding Tells The Story Of Life In The Oval, A Proud, Insular Community Made Up Of The Best And Brightest Of The East Coasts Black Bourgeoisie. Within This Inner Circle Of 'blue-vein Society', We Witness The Prominent Coles Family Gather For The Wedding Of Their Loveliest Daughter, Shelby, Who Could Have Chosen From 'a Whole Area Of Eligible Men Of The Right Colors And The Right Professions.' Instead, She Has Fallen In Love With And Is About To Be Married To Mead Wyler, A White Jazz Musician From York.