I remember almost nothing about the plot of Huckleberry Finn, except it involved a young boy and a slave running away to save their lives and entailed rafting on the Mississippi river. As a Black man author Percival Everett remembered the tale all too well and decided this American ‘classic’ needed to be rewritten. Instead of Huck, Everett lets the enslaved Jim tell their ... Read More...
The Things We Didn’t Know
When Andrea is 9-years-old she finds herself and her little brother Pablo uprooted from their home in Woronoco, Massachusetts and left in a small Puerto Rican village with an aunt they’ve never met. All because their mother hates living in their small 1950s factory town in America and is lonely. This unsettling turn of events is just the beginning of Andrea’s voyage from ... Read More...
The Woman on the Ledge
After a woman is found dead on the pavement in front of a London highrise office building, Tate Kinsella is brought in for questioning on suspicion of murder. She tells the police that she had met the as-yet unidentified woman on the building’s rooftop terrace and that the woman was going to kill herself by jumping until Tate had talked her out of it. Either the woman had gone ... Read More...
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen is back (yes!) with her new novel, After Annie, a heartfelt exploration of the internal campaign grief wages on the individual members of one family. After 37-year-old Annie Brown dies while preparing dinner her husband, daughter, and her best friend slog through the next year trying to reassemble their lives without the glue that was Annie. After Annie is not a ... Read More...
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Siblings Gloria and Robert live on their own in a small Florida town after their father was run out of town for trying to get the local mill workers to unionize. Their position is precarious because it’s the 1950s and Jim Crow, the KKK, and racism are still strong in Florida. So, when 12-year-old Robert kicks a white teenage football player in the leg for making advances on ... Read More...
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
In 1979 a serial killer in Atlanta began targeting Black children. This disturbing truth is the premise for Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones. A painfully powerful novel it chronicles the lives of three 10-year-olds living in the neighborhoods where children were vanishing. For each, the disappearances and murders will have an impact on their lives, but in very different ways. I ... Read More...
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