The publication&#160;&#160;of <i>The Wedding</i> by Dorothy West,&#160;&#160;the last surviving member of the Harlem&#160;&#160;Renaissance, was not only a landmark literary event, but a&#160;&#160;commercial success as well. Readers across America&#160;&#160;responded to West's delicat weaving of North and&#160;&#160;South, black and white, past and present in this&#160;&#160;&quot;fascinating and engrossing tale&quot;&#160;&#160;(<i>People</i>) of race and class set in Martha's&#160;&#160;Vineyard.In her first novel in forty-seven years,&#160;&#160;West offers a window into the rise of the black&#160;&#160;middle class as she lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, <i>The Wedding</i> is Dorothy West's crowning achievement, and one of the last books edited for Doubleday by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.