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Rilla Askew
Rilla Askew 0000000114522334 Rilla Askew is an award-winning author recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Known for her essays, short fiction, and novels like “The Mercy Seat”, her ...
Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place
Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place Rilla Askew 9780806157177 Nonfiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press 2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist! In her first nonfict...
Harpsong
Harpsong Rilla Askew 9780806139289 Fiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. ...
Strange Business
Strange Business Rilla Askew 9780806140285 Fiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town Lyla Mae Munc...
The Mercy Seat
The Mercy Seat Rilla Askew 9780140265156 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Few first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorsele...
Fire in Beulah
Fire in Beulah Rilla Askew 9780142000243 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House "A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families - one white, one Black - whose lives are woven together and t...
Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street
Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street Eddie Faye Gates 9781571688187 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in...
Come By Here: My Mother’s Life
Come By Here: My Mother’s Life Clarence Major 9780471415183 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Lavish praise for come by here""With elegant simplicity and uncommon wisdom, Clarence Major gives us not just the tru...