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The book is divided into seven stories or chapters that are named Mattie Michael, Etta Mae Johnson, Kiswana Browne, Lucielia Louise Turner, Cora Lee, the Two, and the Block Party. This book is about the women who live in the community of Brewster Place, a poor Neighborhood on a dead-end street. The book displays the struggles of all African- American women. Throughout the novel there is a sense of sisterhood and although they had many differences, this is what helps them all to deal with the men who creates their problems. Together they can withstand the pressures of loss and pain that threaten to destroy their lives. In the first chapter, Mattie Michael, she refused to reveal the name of her unborn child's father to her parents, so to as refuge she lives with her friend, etta mae. Her other obstacles included living in the home of Eva Turner until she died and gave the house to Mattie. But mattie then loses the house when her son, Basil, jumped bail after Mattie used their home as collateral for his bond. Kiswana, moved to Brewster place with her boyfriend to organize special activities for the neighborhood and to protest their rent. One of the most powerful scenes is when between Kiswana and her moth