Book
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Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties
Call Number
- FICTION STRA (CEN)
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Publication Information
New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
Physical Description
566 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
New York, the Roaring Twenties. Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one Black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families. The scandal rocks high society-- and Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. As the Rhinelander case sets tongues wagging, we follow their story: from courtship through marriage to the shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. -- adapted from jacket