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Linked stories about the McCaslin family across generations, tracing the entangled Black and white branches of a Mississippi plantation.
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Absalom, Absalom!
Thomas Sutpen arrives in Mississippi in 1833 with a band of enslaved men to build a plantation and a dynasty, and the story of its destruction, told and retold by several narrators, becomes a reckoning with slavery and time.
Intruder in the Dust
A Black man accused of murdering a white man in Yoknapatawpha County gets help proving his innocence from a teenage boy and an elderly aunt.
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead, the son of the richest Black family in a Michigan town, travels south in search of hidden gold and finds instead the story of his family and of an ancestor who could fly.
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.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor's final story collection, published posthumously, with nine stories of grace and violence in the Jim Crow South.
Homegoing
Two half-sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana never meet: Effia marries a British slaver and lives in comfort at Cape Coast Castle, while Esi is imprisoned in its dungeons and shipped to America, and the novel follows their descendants, one chapter each, to the present.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
In 1923 Hattie Shepherd, fifteen, flees Georgia for Philadelphia with her mother and sisters. She marries young, and over the following decades raises nine children, each of whom gets a chapter of their own.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters in 1950s Louisiana grow up to live on opposite sides of the colour line, and the distance between them becomes a map of American racial identity.