The Wedding by Dorothy West – This novel depicts life in Martha’s Vinyard during the 1950s as the elite east coast African-American families grapple with changing mores. The final book written by a surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, it also has the distinction of being the last novel edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and being the basis for a movie produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Halle Berry.
