Summary of the book "Eve's House" by Johnson S.:Ruby and Eleanor are similar in their dark skin color, charm, natural intelligence and desperate desire to get an education and make a career. Only Ruby is trying to escape from outright poverty and dreams of college, and Eleanor, a student at Howard University, ready to work for days in the library of her native educational institution, solves a more difficult task: how to infiltrate Washington's elite circles. However, the destinies of Ruby and Elinor intersect in the most unexpected way in the "House of Eve", a shelter for unmarried mothers, when both girls fall in love with "unsuitable men": after all, according to the American society of the 1950s, poor black girls have no right to encroach on whites… Finding themselves in a desperate situation, both heroines are forced to make fateful decisions… Read more…