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Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
It’s 1944, and Judy Washington needs a better job. Her husband, Herbert, is serving in the army overseas and hasn’t been heard from for months. Judy and her mother are barely making it by taking daily cleaning jobs from the Bronx Slave Market, a place where Black women wait to be hired by white women in search of domestic help. One day Judy meets Captain Charity Adams, a recruiter for the Negro division of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WACs), who convinces Judy to enlist. While in Des Moines, Iowa, in training, Judy becomes close with Stacy, Bernadette, and Mary Alyce, a woman whose ancestry has been kept secret. They are all sent to England to be a part of the all-women-of-color 6888th Central Postal Battalion, a unique group tasked with sorting and distributing thousands of backlogged military letters. Sanders’ debut novel, based on true events, is warmed by the letters’ emotions and peppered with historical events, providing readers with a meaningful glimpse into the social and racial challenges facing these heroic women at home and abroad.
From Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission
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