La tía Harry y la señora Klein

In a small Michigan town in the late 1950s, wealthy widow Etta Klein has relied for over thirty years on Harriet Gibbs, her housekeeper, a Black woman of humble origins. Although a relationship more intimate than friendship has developed between "Aunt Harry" and Mrs. Klein, they never become a couple; they are, however, inseparable, very different, and both have sharp tongues. Mrs. Klein, who has always mourned the untimely death of Sargeant, her favorite son, has taken under her wing Aunt Harry's nephew, the precocious, gay seventeen-year-old Oliver. Oliver faces the prospect of leaving for college and the seductive advances of the house cook when the arrival of a medium named Maurice LeFleur turns everything upside down. With a poignant ending, this extraordinary novel is a rarity in many ways, yet profoundly modern.