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A traumatised Black Korean War veteran travels across 1950s America to save his sister from a medical experiment.
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Memphis
In 1995 Joan, ten, flees with her mother and younger sister to her mother's family home in Memphis, where three generations of women have lived and survived.
God Help the Child
A striking dark-skinned Black woman confronts the mother who rejected her as a child and the damage that rejection left behind.
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.
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.
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.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou's Stamps, Arkansas childhood under Jim Crow, the pastor-grandmother's store, the trauma that silenced her, and the teacher who taught her back into language.
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.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
A Lesson Before Dying
In 1940s Louisiana a young Black teacher is asked to visit a man sentenced to death for a killing he did not commit, so that he can face the electric chair as a man rather than as what his own lawyer called him.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
All Aunt Hagar's Children
Fourteen stories of Black Washington, D.C. across the twentieth century, of people who came up from the South and those born in the city.
Brotherless Night
A young medical student in 1980s Jaffna watches her brothers one by one join the Tamil Tigers and takes her own careful path through a civil war she refuses to romanticise.