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Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden 9781617755750 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise Song for the Butterflies addresses “Trokosi,” the practice of sending girls to shrines as s...
The Warmest December
The Warmest December Bernice L. McFadden 9780525945642 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House "Vivid" hailed the New York Times Book Review of Sugar, Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut novel. ...
Nowhere Is a Place
Nowhere Is a Place Bernice L. McFadden 9781617751318 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surfa...
Glorious
Glorious Bernice L. McFadden 9781617758454 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel,...
Loving Donovan
Loving Donovan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617753183 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Bernice L. McFadden is one of the best contemporary literary writers out there today…Her brilliance, her talent as...
Nowhere Is A Place
Nowhere Is A Place Bernice L. McFadden 9780525948759 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Bernice L. McFadden, whom the novelist Adriana Trigiani calls "a master storyteller," has crafted a tou...
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir Bernice L. McFadden 9780593184974 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an inti...
Gathering of Waters
Gathering of Waters Bernice L. McFadden 9781617750311 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Selected as a Go On Girl! Book Pick100 Notable Books of 2012” New York Times50 Best Books of 2012” Washing...
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617754456 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Book of Harlan was inspired by the life of my paternal grandfather; Harold Isaac McFadden (pictured on the ...
The Warmest December
The Warmest December Bernice L. McFadden 9781617750359 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “McFadden’s reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism… This is no...
Camilla’s Roses
Camilla’s Roses Bernice L. McFadden 9780525947967 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House The poignant tale of a woman who discovers the fragility of life and the strength of a family’s love, from a...
My Name is Butterfly
My Name is Butterfly Bernice L. McFadden X007SGEM3A Fiction Naki Publishing Naki Publishing Republished, under a new title (Praise Song for the Butterflies) from Akashic Books The #12 Bestselling ...
The Making of Butterflies
The Making of Butterflies Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063111585 Fiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins A First Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower, Zo...
Groove
Groove Bernice L. McFadden 9780593472828 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House The first of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name fo...
Fever
Fever Bernice L. McFadden 9780593472842 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House The second of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name fo...
Taffy
Taffy Suzette D. Harrison 9781523298259 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Welcome to the sleepy, all-Black southern town of Bledsoe, where Colored residents proudly declare “ain’t nothing w...
Finding Amos
Finding Amos J.D. Mason, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, and Bernice L. McFadden 9781451617047 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Three national bestselling authors join talents in a multi-dime...
Keeper of Keys
Keeper of Keys Bernice L. McFadden B002NGO50U Fiction Naki Publishing Naki Publishing A young woman finds out that she has AIDS and considers ending her life.
This Bitter Earth
This Bitter Earth Bernice L. McFadden 9780452283817 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the ...
Sugar: A Novel
Sugar: A Novel Bernice L. McFadden 9780452282209 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House 20th Anniversary Edition—with a New Foreword by Kimberly Elise A novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemp...
Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems
Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 9781938769504 Poetry Autumn House Press Autumn House Press Three judges, selected by the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, ...
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations Kelly Starling Lyons 9780525516095 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song "...
I Believe In Butterflies
I Believe In Butterflies Marian L. Thomas 9780615441559 Fiction L.B Publishing L.B Publishing "This book had the soul of our grandmother’s stories, and you can recognize the wistfulness of wanting to ...
Butterfly II
Butterfly II Deborah Cardona a.k.a “Sexy” 9780615520346 Fiction Deja Vu Publications Deja Vu Publications The Butterflies are on the loose, and the Madam C.O. Deja Padilla is hot on their trail. Despe...
Song of Praise (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 9)
Song of Praise (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 9) Vanessa Miller 9781502766601 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC RaShawn Thomas, the youngest member of the Marshall-Thomas family is ha...
Praise Song for the Widow
Praise Song for the Widow Paule Marshall 9781952119040 Fiction McSweeney’s McSweeney’s Featuring a new original introduction by Opal Palmer AdisaAvey Johnson-a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow g...
Praise For Christmas (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 6)
Praise For Christmas (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 6) Vanessa Miller 9781502772749 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A new baby, a wedding and an unexpected illness all collide to ma...
Ramsey’s Praise (Praise Him Anyhow Series)
Ramsey’s Praise (Praise Him Anyhow Series) Vanessa Miller 9781493574704 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Love was something Ramsey Thomas could do without… that is, until the beautiful M...
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho Gayl Jones 9780807029909 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing—two epic poems, the love songs of fugiti...
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy): A Children’s Picture Book
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy): A Children’s Picture Book Paul Simon 9781617757983 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Paul Simon’s groovy anthem to New York City provides a joyful basis...
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks Alice Faye Duncan 9781454930884 Fiction Sterling Children’s Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc “A stirring, accessible introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks and a must-have for ...
Heartbeat
Heartbeat Evan Turk 9781481435208 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. This cinematic picture book from critically acclaimed author and illustrator Evan Turk follows the lif...
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song Gary Golio 9781467751230 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holid...
Splay Anthem
Splay Anthem Nathaniel Mackey 9780811216524 Poetry New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Natha...
Butterfly
Butterfly Ashley Antoinette 9781250136367 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Butterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette and...
The Caged Butterfly
The Caged Butterfly Marian L. Thomas 9781732488007 Fiction L.B Publishing L.B Publishing "The Caged Butterfly by author Marian L. Thomas is the heartrending story of the Mayfield/Taylor family spannin...
Little Lumpy’s Book of Blessings
Little Lumpy’s Book of Blessings Leah Lewis 9780970241528 Fiction Three Butterflies Entertainment & Press Three Butterflies Entertainment & Press “Writer L. Carol Lewis and illustrator Christopher B. ...
Apples and Butterflies
Apples and Butterflies Shauntay Grant 9781771083607 Fiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing Happy memories sparkle in this journey through poet Shauntay Grant’s childhood visits to North Preston, ...
When Butterflies Kiss
When Butterflies Kiss SekouWrites 9780615172200 Fiction SWH Press SWH Press Ten writers each contributed a single chapter to this unique novel without discussing the plot. Gradually, the story evolve...
Black Butterflies: Secrets From The Past
Black Butterflies: Secrets From The Past Vicki L. Hubbard 9780966540024 Fiction Hubbard Small Press Publications Hubbard Small Press Publications From The Publisher In this riveting exploration of lov...
The Double Dutch Fuss: A Memoir
The Double Dutch Fuss: A Memoir Phill Branch 9780063384934 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “Raw, honest, heartbreaking, and laugh-out-loud funny—The Double Dutch Fuss will inspire and uplift. In these t...
Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands - A Collection Of Erotic Black Fiction
Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands - A Collection Of Erotic Black Fiction Carol Taylor 9780743442442 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. IF THE FIST BROWN SUGAR LEFT YOU WANTI...
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift Carol Mackey 9781478917526 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Photography by B. Jeffrey Grant-Clark This full-color p...
Praise Him Anyhow-Volume 2
Praise Him Anyhow-Volume 2 Vanessa Miller 9781502458780 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ramsey’s Praise (Book 4) Love was something Ramsey Thomas could do without… that is, until the b...
Praise Him Anyhow - Volume 1
Praise Him Anyhow - Volume 1 Vanessa Miller 9780615842073 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Tears Fall at Night: Life was good, God was blessing and the Marshall family was riding high, u...
Tears Fall at Night (Praise Him Anyhow) (Volume 1)
Tears Fall at Night (Praise Him Anyhow) (Volume 1) Vanessa Miller 9781492976134 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Life was good, God was blessing and the Marshall family was riding high, ...
Purpose and Power of Praise and Worship
Purpose and Power of Praise and Worship Myles Munroe 9781459600393 Nonfiction ReadHowYouWant ReadHowYouWant Every manufactured product was made to function within the context of specified guidelines a...
Purpose and Power of Praise and Worship
Purpose and Power of Praise and Worship Myles Munroe 9780768413465 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image Every manufactured product was made to function within the context of specified guidelines and...
The Eagle That Would Not Fly
The Eagle That Would Not Fly Barbara Solomon 9781498470179 Nonfiction Xulon Press Xulon Press The story of Lumba, "The Eagle That Would Not Fly" is told through a series of unfortunate events that dis...
Princess Kamala and The Attack of King Timaeus
Princess Kamala and The Attack of King Timaeus Barbara Solomon 9781498420723 Nonfiction Xulon Press Xulon Press Princess Kamala’s favorite story was the attack of King Timaeus. As the story unfolds, P...
The Frog Who Could Not Jump
The Frog Who Could Not Jump Barbara Solomon 9781628716634 Nonfiction Xulon Press Xulon Press This book is dedicated to my 6 year old Grandson. I want o give a message to young children that no matter ...
The Girl Who Wanted to Become a Princess
The Girl Who Wanted to Become a Princess Barbara Solomon 9781628393545 Nonfiction Xulon Press Xulon Press This book was originally written for my granddaughter Kamala. But the message is for anyone wh...
Fadya and the Song of the River
Fadya and the Song of the River Laura Nsafou 9781849768245 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC A vibrantly illustrated tale celebrating creativity and serving your community Bet...
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers)
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers) Bill Withers 9781338815382 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Bill Withers’s celebrated hit song Lovely Day comes to life in this beauti...
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2)
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2) bell hooks 9780060938291 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of ...
Elizabeth’s Song
Elizabeth’s Song Michael Wenberg 9781582700694 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. Elizabeth’s Song tells the inspirational story based on the young life of the noted African American folksinger, g...
African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)
African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) Eileen Southern...
Praise Him Anyhow-Volume 3
Praise Him Anyhow-Volume 3 Vanessa Miller 9781502729880 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC His Love Walk (Book 7) Ronny Thomas’ rags to riches story has made him arrogant enough to beli...
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250779502 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A singula...
Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song Kathryn Erskine 9780374303013 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Awar...
A Light Song of Light
A Light Song of Light Kei Miller 9781847771032 Poetry Carcanet Press Carcanet Press Exploring the relationship between poetry and song, the pieces in this collection work to define the elemental human...
Searching for Mr. Johnson’s Song
Searching for Mr. Johnson’s Song Ariel Vanece 9780593617816 Fiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House A touching story of the friendship between a young boy and his elderly neighbor, and how that ...
Serenity’s Song: The Melody of Healing
Serenity’s Song: The Melody of Healing r.h. Sin 9798881600181 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing The second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduc...
August Lane
August Lane Regina Black 9781538767528 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the author of The Art of Scandal comes a small town romance about the visibility of Black women’s voice...
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde Tia Williams 9781538726709 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, A Love Song for Ricki Wild...
Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange Imani Perry 9780306828515 Fiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Featured In: The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2023 Lit...
Music Is in Everything
Music Is in Everything Ziggy Marley 9781617759437 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves...
Your Name Is a Song
Your Name Is a Song Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow 9781943147724 Fiction The Innovation Press The Innovation Press Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a l...
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved Toni Morrison 9780593082164 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A box set of Toni Morrison’s principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye ...
Who Put This Song On?
Who Put This Song On? Morgan Parker 9780525707516 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest. —Elizabeth Acevedo, National ...
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage Pauli Murray 9781631494581 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murra...
The Long Song
The Long Song Andrea Levy 9780312571146 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year In her follow-up to Smal...
Voices Reflections On An American Icon Through Words And Song
Voices Reflections On An American Icon Through Words And Song Choral Arts Society Of Washington 9781403739841 Nonfiction Dalmatian Press Dalmatian Press Some 40 years after his death, Dr. Martin Luthe...
Babu’s Song
Babu’s Song Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen 9781600602757 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Bernardi loves to play soccer and would love to go to school too, but he and his grandfather, Babu, cannot affo...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A Song Flung Up to Heaven Maya Angelou 9780553382037 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that...
WHATSAID Serif
WHATSAID Serif Nathaniel Mackey 9780872863415 Poetry City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey’s third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through ...
!Click Song
!Click Song John A. Williams 9780938410430 Fiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press Autographed Copy In my native village … the is a sing we always sing … it’s called ‘The Click Song’ by...
Men’s Prayer Journal: A Place for Reflection, Praise, & Thanks
Men’s Prayer Journal: A Place for Reflection, Praise, & Thanks Romal J. Tune 9781646114931 Nonfiction Rockridge Press Callisto Publishing A straightforward prayer journal where the Christian man can p...
Blue Hallelujahs
Blue Hallelujahs Cynthia Manick 9781625579454 Poetry Black Lawrence Press Black Lawrence Press Praise from Tyehimba Jess Cynthia Manick’s BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor...
Monday Morning Meditations: Exchanging Pain for Praise
Monday Morning Meditations: Exchanging Pain for Praise Judith Falloon-Reid 9781517661854 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Begin each week with Monday Morning Meditations, an inspiring d...
Silent Praise (Able to Love, Volume 3)
Silent Praise (Able to Love, Volume 3) Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781507729557 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A Banker. A Cop. One Complicated Case. Nothing just happens. When Officer Chase D...
A Forever Kind of Love (Praise Him Anyhow Series)
A Forever Kind of Love (Praise Him Anyhow Series) Vanessa Miller 9781493573745 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A love that out lasts the test of time… Handsome and successful, Dontae ...
Joy Comes In The Morning (Praise Him Anyhow)
Joy Comes In The Morning (Praise Him Anyhow) Vanessa Miller 9781493568406 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Love was a four-letter word, and trust was an even worse five-letter word that ...
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems Marilyn Nelson 9780807121757 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the s...
Lucy Sings on Lucy Street
Lucy Sings on Lucy Street Lawrence E. Roberts II and Sally-Ann Roberts 9780063222540 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This inspiring historical picture book based on the childhood of Lucy Tolliv...
Song of My Softening
Song of My Softening Omotara James 9781948579247 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books Recommended by Cosmopolitan USA Today Shondaland Book Riot “It’s not often that fa...
Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
Autumn Song: Essays on Absence Patrice Gopo 9781496235800 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Winner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award We all...
Your Story Is Your Clout. Your Voice Is Your Power.: Creative Writing Meets Self Help
Your Story Is Your Clout. Your Voice Is Your Power.: Creative Writing Meets Self Help Ross Victory 9781638775607 Nonfiction VFTC Universe VFTC Universe If you were to write a book about your Life, wha...
Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love
Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love Edwina Louise Dorch 9781663234056 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions This fast-paced contemporary, novel, set in Los Angeles, can be read on a b...
Song of Redemption
Song of Redemption Malika J. Stevely 9780578336534 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Inspired by true events. In 1932, a media frenzy ensues after the remains of Danielle, a gift...
Everything Grows
Everything Grows Raffi Cavoukian 9780593172650 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Raffi’s beloved song celebrating the earth is available for the first time in a boar...
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9781984880338 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the...
Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars
Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars Gary Golio 9781524738884 Nonfiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The poignant story of Blind Willie Johnson—the legendary Te...
A Song Below Water
A Song Below Water Bethany C. Morrow 9781250315328 Fiction Tor Teen Macmillan Publishers Bethany C. Morrow’s A Song Below Water is the story for today’s readers — a captivating modern fantasy about bl...
African
African Peter Tosh 9781617757990 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.So d...
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World Gary Golio 9781627795128 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers Discover the childhood story of Carlos Santana in Gary Golio’s...
Song of Blood & Stone: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book One
Song of Blood & Stone: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book One L. Penelope 9781250148070 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers "Wonderful characters, unique setting, and an engaging romance set aga...
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song Tara T. Green 9780814254714 Fiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press In Reimagining ...
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels: God Dies by the Nile, Searching, the Circling Song
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels: God Dies by the Nile, Searching, the Circling Song Nawal El Saadawi 9781783605965 Fiction Zed Books Zed Books God Dies by the Nile is Saadawi’s attempt to square...
Song Of The Shank: A Novel
Song Of The Shank: A Novel Jeffery Renard Allen 9781555976804 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America d...