Try The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison).
Mama Toni Morrison writes spirit-led works and every single stroke of her pen/keyboard serves for the purpose of uplift. Writing is more than craft for those keepers of The Way like her; writing is soul's work and we really need more like her, keepers of The Way, griots with that true sense of ancestral responsibility and artistic integrity. .
Toni Morrison explains her novel Home in this following NPR interview:
http://onpoint.wbur....morrison/player