Julie Sullivan's debut novel, "The World is Full of Champions," takes a critical look at the chasm that exists between a fictional family from the Black elite in Philadelphia and their working-class maid and her family.
Part-history, part saga, part Cain and Abel, and part romance novel, "Champions" tells a story that spans three decades of Georgia Smythe's life.
Georgia's mother works as a maid for the Whitmans, a judge and his wife who live in the Philadelphia suburbs. Georgia grows up playing with the Whitman's two sons. When she is 6, her father is killed in a mining accident.
