Books like Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford comes back to her Florida town and tells her friend the story of her three marriages, from a loveless arranged match to a short, joyous, doomed love in the Everglades.
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The Color Purple
A young Black woman in rural Georgia finds her voice and her freedom through sisterhood, love, and the slow, fierce work of self-creation.
Salvage the Bones
A pregnant fifteen-year-old in rural Mississippi weathers Hurricane Katrina with her brothers, her fighting dogs, and a ferocity that refuses to break.
Florida
Eleven stories that circle Florida and its storms, snakes and heat, from two small sisters abandoned on an island to a mother who walks her neighbourhood at night to keep her rage in check.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.
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.
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.
The Light Pirate
Wanda is born during a hurricane in a small Florida town, and as she grows up the water keeps rising and the state, and her family, start to come apart.
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.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
Where the Crawdads Sing
A young woman raised in the North Carolina marshes by herself is suspected of murder, and the trial reveals a life shaped by abandonment and the wild.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A boy and an escaped slave raft down the Mississippi River, and the journey through antebellum America becomes a moral education in empathy, freedom, and the lies of 'civilised' society.
The Golden Apples
Linked stories about the inhabitants of Morgana, Mississippi, told across decades and echoing with Irish myth.