Reading Sadeqa Johnson’s redemptive gut punch of a novel, “The House of Eve,” made me recall the dissonance I felt in 2021 when National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi declared that the ...

The lives of two Black women in the 1950s intersect over pregnancy and adoption. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sadeqa Johnson about her novel, "The House of Eve." ...

The House of Eve – Sadeqa Johnson 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more ...

Sadeqa Johnson shines a light on Black motherhood in 'The House of Eve' : NPR's Book of the Day In the 1950s, pregnancy and adoption were topics often clouded in shame, secrecy – or both. That's ...