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Leila Mottley
“A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a…
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Robert Jones
“Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a…
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Henry Dumas
“Championed by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South…
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Nancy Johnson
“It’s 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’…
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Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox
“Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now…
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Mateo Askaripour
“For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street - a blazing, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a…
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Ben Okri
“As his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, battles the evil spirits who are…
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Ladee Hubbard
“For fifteen years August Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who plucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part of the…
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John Oliver Killens
“Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the…
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Bryan Washington
“Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They’ve been together for a few years, but now they’re not sure why they’re still a…