“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…
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all…
“The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming…
“A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic…
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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…