Ruby and Eleanor are similar in their dark skin color, charm, natural intelligence, and desperate desire to obtain an education and build a career. Only Ruby is trying to break free from outright poverty and dreams of college, while Eleanor,...
a student at Howard University who is willing to work days and nights in her native school library, faces a more complicated problem: how to infiltrate the elite circles of Washington. However, the fates of Ruby and Eleanor intersect in the most unexpected way in "Eva's House," a shelter for unwed mothers, when both girls fall in love with "unsuitable men": for according to American society in the 1950s, poor dark-skinned girls have no right to aspire to white men... Finding themselves in a desperate situation, both heroines are forced to make fateful decisions…
Ruby and Eleanor are similar in their dark skin color, charm, natural intelligence, and desperate desire to obtain an education and build a career. Only Ruby is trying to break free from outright poverty and dreams of college, while Eleanor, a student at Howard University who is willing to work days and nights in her native school library, faces a more complicated problem: how to infiltrate the elite circles of Washington. However, the fates of Ruby and Eleanor intersect in the most unexpected way in "Eva's House," a shelter for unwed mothers, when both girls fall in love with "unsuitable men": for according to American society in the 1950s, poor dark-skinned girls have no right to aspire to white men... Finding themselves in a desperate situation, both heroines are forced to make fateful decisions…
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