Julie Sullivan’s new novel, ‘The World is Full of Champions,’ looks at class bias among Black Americans. It’s also a love story

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. As a young w…

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