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Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in 1940s Kentucky, carries the story of the Portuguese slave master who fathered both her grandmother and her mother, and the charge they gave her to make generations who would bear witness.
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Property
In 1828 Louisiana, Manon Gaudet, a sugar planter's wife who hates her husband, wants above all to be rid of Sarah, the enslaved woman he has made his mistress.
Beloved
In 1873 Ohio, Sethe, who escaped slavery eighteen years earlier, lives with her daughter Denver in a house haunted by the ghost of her baby, until a young woman calling herself Beloved arrives.
Heavy
Kiese Laymon writes a memoir to his mother about growing up Black in Mississippi, about weight, gambling, abuse and love, and the lies they told to survive.
The Bluest Eye
A young Black girl in 1940s Ohio prays for blue eyes, and her wish exposes the way American beauty standards destroy the people they exclude.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
A fictionalised account of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, told from inside the mind of a literate, tormented preacher.
An American Marriage
Celestial and Roy are newlyweds in Atlanta with bright futures when Roy is sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he did not commit, and as the years pass, she finds comfort in Andre, her childhood friend and their best man.
The Water Dancer
A young enslaved man discovers he has the power to move through water and memory, and uses it to escape a Virginia plantation on the eve of the Civil War.
My Dark Vanessa
In 2017, as women come forward online, Vanessa Wye, now thirty-two, learns that her old English teacher has been accused of abuse, and has to reckon with the relationship he began with her when she was fifteen at a Maine boarding school.
The Known World
In antebellum Virginia, a freed Black man becomes a slaveholder himself, and the moral catastrophe of the institution devours everyone it touches.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the city and the Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother's people have lived for generations, and as she grows older she traces her family back through slavery to the land's first people.
The Prince of Tides
A Southern football coach goes to New York to help his suicidal twin sister's psychiatrist understand the family, and the family turns out to be much worse than either of them told.
Let Us Descend
Annis, the daughter of an enslaved woman and the man who owns them both, is sold away from the Carolina rice fields and marched south to the slave markets of New Orleans, and on the way a spirit of the wind, Aza, begins to speak to her.