Category: United States

The Untelling

The Untelling

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Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and baby sister when she was nine. At 25 she begins to unearth secrets about family, friends, her past, and her altered reality in this journey through truth and forgiveness....
Category: African American
Jonah’s Gourd Vine

Jonah’s Gourd Vine

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The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published in 1934, it was praised by Carl Sandburg as “a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable.”...
Category: African American
Mules and Men

Mules and Men

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Acclaimed by celebrated folklorist Alan Lomax as “the most engaging, genuine and skillfully written book in the filed of folklore.” This is Hurston's first great collection of African American tales, songs and sayings. For the...
Category: African American
The Outsider

The Outsider

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“Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction...
Category: African American
Apex Hides the Hurt

Apex Hides the Hurt

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From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity,history, and the adhesive bandage industry When the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name...
Category: African American
Angry Black White Boy: A Novel

Angry Black White Boy: A Novel

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From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity. Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy...
Category: African American
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