The WeddingBy: Dorothy West In her final novel, a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Marthas Vineyard in the 1950s. Within this inner circle of "blue vein society," we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter,