Sweet Surrender

by Anne Spencer

After the death of her father, Mary Beth Anderson decided to move to San Francisco to build a new life. Shy & inexperienced, she quickly caught the eye of her employer, a man know for his casual affairs with many women. She seemed strangely nervous in his presence, yet felt empty when they were apart. Was it love, she wondered? Or only the desperate loneliness of a woman in a strange & glamorous city.

189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Annie Bethel Spencer (better known as Anne Spencer) (February 6, 1882, Henry County, Virginia – July 27, 1975, Lynchburg, Virginia) was an American poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period.

Spencer was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist for equality and educational opportunities for all, she hosted such dignitaries as Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

(from Wikipedia)