Maud Martha
Maud Martha is the only novella written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Published in 1953 by Harper & Brothers and reprinted by Third World Press, it includes a series of vignettes following the titular character Maud Martha as she negotiates the passage from childhood to adulthood in black Chicago neighbourhoods.[1][2]
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Style
Structurally, the novel has a nonlinear narrative, that also is explained in poetic language unusual to novels. Rather, as critic GerShun Avilez describes it, it is a "fragmentary poetic narrative."[3] Other critics focus on its artistic connection to Brook's poetry; Asali Solomon highlighted the language of the novel saying that it is good at "gracefully evoking the nastiness of life."[1]
Reception
Reviewing the novel for NPR in 2006, Asali Solomon said the character's life "resembles your life or mine: good days and bad, no headlines."[1]
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