House of Eve

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The House of Eve
Set in late-1940s/1950s America, this novel follows two young Black women—Ruby Pearsall, a 15-year-old in Philadelphia with dreams of college, and Eleanor Quarles, a scholarship student at Howard University in DC trying to belong among elite Black society. Both fall in love—with men beyond what their worlds would approve—and each becomes unexpectedly pregnant, forcing painful decisions about ambition, motherhood, class, and color. Their stories converge in a bittersweet climax that questions what a woman must sacrifice for her future.