On the heels of the bestseller success of The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories which explores both the realism of everyday life and the fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one woman's life in a mythic time. "An intimate glimpse of both the virtures and the vices of the African-American middle class".-New York Times Book Review | The Richer The Poorer by Dorothy West, Paperback | Indigo Chapters