The Chinaberry Tree and elliptic polarization

and elliptic polarization

Reprint of the Princeton University Press

molecular beams

This book contains 320 unconventional problems in algebra

household running

The Chinaberry Tree and elliptic polarizationAdultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common law interracial union. Proud and independent, she longs for the respectability of a conventional marriage. Laurentine's vivacious and self confident cousin, Melissa, also aspires to "marry up." But a