Blue Talk and Love
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
The storylines range widely: a big-bodied teenage girl from Harlem discovers her sexuality in the midst of racial tensions at her Upper East Side school; four young women from Newark, New Jersey, are charged with assaulting the man who threatens to rape them; a pair of conjoined black female twins born into slavery, make their fame as stage performers in the Big City. In each story, the characters push past what is expected of them, learning to celebrate their voices and their lives.
In honor of Mecca Sullivan’s being named the recipient of the 2018 Judith A. Markowitz Lambda Award as an emerging LGBTQ writer, Riverdale Avenue Books has released a second edition of her acclaimed collection for which the Lambda judges called Sullivan, ‘An essential writer of our present moment.”
‘We are so proud of Mecca for receiving this prestigious award. She made her fiction debut with Riverdale Avenue Books five years ago, when we were both new to the literary scene, and we are publishing an updated second edition with the wonderful quote from Ntozake Shange on the cover to commemorate this achievement,” said Publisher Lori Perkins.
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Details
ISBN | 9781626011618 |
Genre | Award Winner; Black Interest; Fiction |
Publication Date | 18-Mar-15 |
Publisher | Riverdale Avenue Books LLC |
Format | Paperback |
No. of Pages | 234 |
Language | English |
Rating | Great |
Subject | Fiction |
BookID | 15160 |