“In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly…
“Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and…
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all…
“Monette recalls his tortured youth as a gay man, during which he tried to imitate straight men and pursued heartbreaking affections,…
“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls…
“Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the pre-feminist ‘60s and then to pass as a man in order to…
“The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself…
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“In this novel, Amalia Gómez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia…
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“Set in 1902, members of a Gullah family from the Sea Islands off Georgia’s coast struggle with the decision to move North, leaving behind…
“Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching…