West, Dorothy, afterword by Adelaide M. Cromwell, — The Living Is Easy.

NY, Feminist Press, (1982). VG PB. One of only a handful of novels published byblack women during the 1940s, the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of southern. sharecroppers who wants to become a member of Boston's early 20th century elite. Married to the black banana king, she manipulates her 3 sister into living with her, along with their children but not their husbands, in an attempt to recreate her original family. The special role of mother in childhood fantasies.