Eva's House

From the award-winning author comes a bold, beautiful, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve a greater goal.

A woman trapped by her past. Philadelphia, USA, 1950s: Ruby Pearsall, a fifteen-year-old girl, is on track to become the first in her family to attend university, even though her mother would prefer nothing more than to see her well married.

However, a forbidden love threatens to drag Ruby back to the poverty and despair that were passed down to her at birth as an inevitable inheritance.

Another woman, trapped by what she wants to be in the future. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, D.C., full of ambition and secrets. When she meets the highly attractive William Pride at university, she falls madly in love. However, William comes from a very wealthy Black family, part of the city's elite, and his parents make it difficult for anyone to enter their inner circle. Eleanor will be no exception, but she believes that having a child with William could finally give her the life she has always dreamed of. The stories of these women will collide in an entirely unexpected way.

Living only in the present is not something they are allowed. A deep dive into what it meant to be a Black woman in the great American cities of the 1950s. Author Sadeqa Johnson takes us on a journey through racism, classism, sexism, and almost everything that dramatically ends in -ism. A triumphant book.