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Title	:	Linden Hills
Author	:	Gloria Naylor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	March 4th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Classics. American. African American Literature

Linden Hills Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there—and that they want to be among them. Once people get to Linden Hills, the quest continues, more subtle, but equally fierce: the goal is a house on Tupelo Drive, the epitome of achievement and visible success. No one notices that the property on Tupelo Drive goes back on sale quickly; no one questions why there are always vacancies at Linden Hills. In a resonant novel that takes as its model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream—that the price of success may very well be a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.

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Original Title:	Linden Hills
ISBN:	0140088296 (ISBN13: 9780140088298)
Edition Language:	English

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Success is one of the most popular topics of the modern era. This is a world populated with self-help books that will help you start your new business, spend your money wiser, change your mindset so that it's better than those around you, eat a plant-based diet, among other things. What these books, as well as images of success scattered on Social Media, don't often show you is the suffering that can accompany success. The traps that await you once you "make it." Until you read Linden Hills.

"If anything was the problem with Linden Hills, it was that nothing seemed to be what it really was. Everything was turned upside down in that place." This is most definitely a book I'd deem a necessary inclusion in the "Essential Gloria Naylor Reads". This is another amazing read. I read Gloria's Mama Day when I was young and probably didn't have the capacity to appreciate such books. Having read that one book, I kind of put her books to the side for decades as books that I was not too fond of

The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language, so you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isnt shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There

This is the first I have heard of Gloria Naylor, and her writing took me back to 1986 in America.The story takes us through the generations of Luther Needed and his way of life, values and struggles mostly being that he was Black, and what follows from the first two chapters is an account of various Black families and their children struggling to make it in life. Linden Hills is symbolic in that it is not just a place, but to most people it is the best and only place one should aspire to live in

It was interesting in that the women of Linden Hills were the subject at certain points of the book and each of the womens stories through the current Mrs. Needed unfolded how they disappeared in the shadows of Mr. Needed Sr. and Mr. Needed Jr. It was as if the womens private pain reflected in the material remnants were the only validation that they had ever existed. And if this was a commentary, a metaphor perhaps, of how the years suggests stability, domesticity, and commitment in the Nedeed

I wanted to like this book a lot more, but I was terribly bored by the story of Luther's wife. I liked Willie's story considerably, and wished that it had been only his story. Yes, the connection to Dante is there, the social critique is there. But the best writing happens in Wille's story, not hers...

Strangely enough, I happened to start reading this book on December 19th, the same day that Willie and Lester begin their descent into Linden Hills. I read everything else on the date it happened, except for the last day (Christmas Eve) because I didn't want the holiday to get in the way of it.Linden Hills is another absolutely unmistakable Gloria Naylor work - there's the archetypal isolated setting at the fringes of reality and fantasy, the brilliant riffing on classic literature (doing to