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Maud Martha by Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Maud Martha about?

When Maud Martha Brown is seven years old, what she likes even better than "candy buttons, and books, ..and the west sky" are dandelions: "Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard." Maud Martha's nine-year-old sister, Helen, is heart-catchingly beautiful; Maud Martha comforts herself with knowing that what is common - like the demurely pretty dandelion with "only ordinary allurements" - is also a flower. Through pithy and poetic chapter-moments - "spring landscape: detail," "death of grandmother," "first beau," "low yellow," "everybody will be surprised" - Maud Martha grows up, gets married, and gives birth to a daughter. Maud Martha, a gentle woman with "scraps of baffled hate in her, hate with no eyes, no smile..." who knows "while people did live they would be grand, would be glorious and brave, would have nimble hearts that would beat and beat," is portrayed with exquisitely imaginative and tender detail by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize

Who reads Maud Martha?

Author

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-

Publisher

Chicago: Third World Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780883780619

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.06 / 5 (1,083 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14