"The Women of Brewster Place" by Gloria Naylor

Lucielia's Conflict With Reality
The novel The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor focuses on the stories of several women who have refused to accept their own realities, causing them to create new realities for themselves. In "Lucielia Louise Turner," a woman's life is almost destroyed because she believes that she cannot survive the burden of truth. However, through a mother line, from the wisdom passed on by a life-experienced woman Mattie, Lucielia learns that truth is worth far more than self-delusion. Lucielia has a live-in boyfriend, Eugene, and they have a child, Serena. L…