Dorothy West's second and last novel, 

The Wedding

(1995), was published forty-seven years after her debut novel, 

The Living Is Easy

. In 

The Wedding

, West returns readers to the still important issues of class and color-consciousness that she previously had explored in the exclusive circles of east-coast African Americans. After West's first novel was published, she received a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehard Foundation to support her second book. This novel, 

The Wedding

, also includes sections from another unfinished manuscript titled “Where the Wild Grape Grows,” an apparent allusion to the, perhaps unacknowledged, rule-breaking spirit that West will locate among staunch Oak Bluffs traditionalists at Martha's Vineyard.

The immediate action in the novel occurs at Martha's

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Citation: Jimoh, A Yemisi. "The Wedding". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 January 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8119, accessed 29 March 2024.]

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