Brothers and Sisters. - book reviews
T. Andreas SpelmanBrothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell (Putnam. 1994. $22.95)--Set in 1992 Los Angeles in the aftermath of the brutalization of Rodney King, this is Campbell's third novel, and by far her most ambitious and encompassing. Angel City National Bank serves as a meeting ground for social, political and psychological themes--interracial coupling anxieties, financial institutions' resistance to black entrepreneurs, the underlying animosity in black-white female friendships, and the worries of immigrants struggling for economic independence and of whites fearful their neighborhoods will be infiltrated by blacks, Asians and Latinos.
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