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Jun 03, 2020 · From a New York Times bestselling author, this book is “an engrossing page-turner about twin sisters who run away from home as teenagers and choose to live in very different worlds: one black and one white. Ten years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape, while the other secretly passes for white, and …
The Poet by Micheal Connelly. The fact that crime reporter Jack McEvoy is so passionate about solving his brothers murder case is touching. I'm also an identical twin,so I can relate.
Feb 05, 2020 · After starting The Happy Wives Club blog and building a community of over 400,000 happy wives, she took her project to the next level. Fawn traveled the world interviewing wives on the keys to a happy marriage. She found 12 common themes in happy marriages and shares them through the stories of the women she encountered. Marriage 101 by Jewell ...
It tells the story of “11 year-old Pecola Breedlove, who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. It vividly evokes the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child’s yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.”.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler: Written by a prolific American science fiction writer, Kindred is a combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction. “Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976, Dana is suddenly wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland.
The basis of any good relationship is communication. These books will help you avoid the communication mistakes that can kill yours.
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If you’ve already said “I do” these relationship books by Black authors will help you keep the spark in your marriage for years to come.
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It is about racial identity, of course, and three generations of mother-daughter relationships. It is also about a particularly American existential conflict — the tension between personal freedom and responsibility to a community. The novel raises thorny questions about the cost of blackness.
Image. The subject of passing has an impressive literary legacy. In 1929, the Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen explored it in her novel “Passing”; her light-skinned female central characters come to no good end, done in by racism and good old-fashioned patriarchy.
News spreads fast, but the truth is more banal, and more heartbreaking, than the townspeople’s gossipy suppositions: The child is Desiree’s daughter, Jude, the product of an abusive marriage to a man in Washington, D.C.
Despite these shortcomings, “The Vanishing Half” is a brave foray into vast and difficult terrain. It is about racial identity, of course, and three generations of mother-daughter relationships.
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction in the latest true crime books . (Think jewel thieves, mysterious disappearances and a murderous babysitter.) If your idea of escape involves time travel, try any of these historical novels, which take you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and beyond. Advertisement.
The “one-drop rule” is foundational to all legislation around segregation in America, from the Jim Crow South to the de facto segregation of the North.
The first novel written by an African American woman, Our Nig focuses on the fictional character Frado and her servant-girl life in New England during antebellum slavery. Her journey mirrors that of creator Harriet E. Wilson, whose work was rediscovered by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. more than 100 years later.
The author documents her time as an enslaved Black woman and how she and her children were able to acquire their freedom.
There Is Confusion. by Jessie Fauset (1924) A debut novel by a Harlem Renaissance author, There Is Confusion centers on the lives of the Marshalls and Byes, two well-to-do cosmopolitan African American families, as they grapple with love and professional ambition at the turn of the 20th century.
by Nella Larsen (1928)#N#Loosely influenced by Nella Larsen’ s own life, Quicksand tells the story of Helga Crane, a biracial Black woman who partakes in a series of adventures across the United States and Denmark to find a place where she can finally fit in.
by Nella Larsen (1929) A tale of two light-skinned women, Clare and Irene. The former chooses to pass, and the latter chooses to remain in the African American community. What follows is an unraveling of the serious repercussions of racial masquerading.
by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) This groundbreaking novel by the Harlem Renaissance novelist and anthropologist focuses on the emerging autonomy and maturation of Janie Crawford as she endures multiple marriages, poverty, and various other associative trials to reach a state of clarity.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. Flexing her skill as an ethnographer and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston documents her time in Haiti and Jamaica, “collecting folktales and documenting African based language and religions, such as Voodoo and its American counterpart: Hoodoo,” Adero says.
Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood And Bone captivated the imagination and hearts of book readers young and old, as the debut novel tells the story of Zélie Adebola, who must bring magic back to her native country of Orïsha. Because Adeyemi focuses on Yoruba culture it quickly got the attention of movie studios, and the book has already been tapped ...
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart features poems about activism, love, hope and even the simple things like baking frittatas.
This year has been an exciting one for Black authors — particularly authors who are Black women. Not only were Zora Neale Hurston’s 1927 interviews with Cudjo Lewis, the last known living survivor of the Middle Passage, unearthed in book form, our forever first lady Michelle Obama also blessed us with chapters upon chapters ...
Tayari Jones – An American Marriage . Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage is so good that Oprah Winfrey even included it in her book club. The novel follows two newlyweds, who get suddenly ripped apart when the husband is sentenced to jail for 12 years.
Lucy McBath, the mother of Jordan Davis who was shot and killed over loud music, told her harrowing story in Standing Our Ground: The Triumph of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother’s Story. But the memoir is much more about the killing; it’s also about a mother raising, loving and taking care of her son. It’s also a cry for better gun control policies in America.
The answer to this book is yes, yes we can. In Can We All Be Feminists?, editor June Eric-Udorie showcases the work of some of our favs, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, and Evette Dionne, as they detail and discuss what 21st century feminism means for Black women.
Glory Edim turned her book club into an actual book. Well Read Black Girl is a collection of essays from today’s most prolific writers, detailing how they fell in love with the written word. It’s the perfect book for booklovers and book nerds alike.