Category: Black Interest

Posted in Black Interest Poetry

Madness Like Morning Glories by doris davenport

doris davenport | Madness Like Morning Glories | In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its Afrilacian residents. These African Americans inhabiting a

Posted in Black Interest Fiction YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Not otherwise specified by Hannah Moskowitz

Hannah Moskowitz | Not otherwise specified | Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for

Posted in Black Interest Correspondence

Sister Love by Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde | Sister Love | Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

Trifonia Melibea Obono | La Bastarda | ‘The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village inclu

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

How to Love a Jamaican: Stories by Alexia Arthurs

Alexia Arthurs | How to Love a Jamaican: Stories | Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest

Looking for Lorraine by Perry Imani

Perry Imani | Looking for Lorraine | A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Black Interest

The Confessions Of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

Sara Collins | The Confessions Of Frannie Langton | ‘Deep-diving and elegant . . . Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace’ Margaret Atwood ‘Sara Collins takes the gothic genre by the scruff o

Posted in Black Interest Speculative Fiction

Unicorn Tracks by Julia Ember

Julia Ember | Unicorn Tracks | When a vicious assault compels sixteen-year-old Mnemba to leave her village, she joins her cousin Tumelo as a tracker in his booming safari business.

Posted in Black Interest Speculative Fiction

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Jacqueline Koyanagi | Ascension | Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargo

Posted in Black Interest Speculative Fiction

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring | A fantasy novel of urban decay whose heroine turns to Afro-Caribbean magic to help a boyfriend escape gangs. The gangs are enforcing a contract to pro