There were plenty of young white girls sent to these birthing places where they had no choice but to give up their babies.

They weren’t just for Black women, either. For Ruby, she has to figure out how to still go to college, and that leads to us learning all about the forced adoption centers. This book touches on a dark part of America’s past. Now Eleanor needs to fit in, and she wants a baby, but that doesn’t seem to be as easy as she’d hoped. William’s mother will try everything to get rid of Eleanor, but William isn’t going to follow through with that. Of course, Eleanor is from the wrong side of the tracks. The man she loves is from one of America’s richest Black families. When she falls in love, she finds that she has to balance everything in her life, but that’s not the hardest part. Meanwhile, there’s Eleanor, a Black woman in college who is also working two jobs to be able to afford her tuition. His mom wants nothing more than Ruby gone, and she has just the plan to do it. However, the man she loves is a white Jewish boy on the other side of the tracks. Maybe that wouldn’t be too bad if her boy would marry her. Things go terribly wrong when she finds out she’s pregnant. There is everything against her, including the fact that she’s Black in 1950s America. She needs to prove herself in the We Rise program, as the only way she can go to college is by getting a scholarship. The first is 15-year-old Ruby, who is set to be the first woman in her family to go to college. What is The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson about? I do believing in remembering the darker parts of history so that we don’t repeat it. That doesn’t stop it from touching on parts of history that a lot of people would likely want to forget. The story is set in the past again, but not quite as far back as Yellow Wife. I didn’t need a lot to check out The House of Eve. Sadeqa Johnson is one of them after her excellent novel Yellow Wife. There are a few authors I keep an eye on. The characters come to life in your mind.ĭisclaimer: I got an advance copy of The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson from NetGalley in return for an honest review. If you loved Yellow Wife, you’ll want to check out The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson.