Fiction

Now a classic, the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark's gritty Thug series takes readers into the streets, where a wrong choice could be the last decision a person ever makes . . . In a neighborhood loaded with sex,...

A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Leger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake...

This "vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive" (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection of stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction,...

Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's...

Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's...

Now a Lifetime movie event! From the NAACP Image award winner and national bestselling author of The Personal Librarian comes a novel inspired by the seven deadly sins about a woman who wants more than just a relationship from her newly...

An indelible portrait of prejudice and promise, friendship and loyalty, Driving the King is a daring novel that explores race and class in pre-Civil Rights America, played out in the lives of two remarkable men.The war is over, the soldiers are...

A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past. "Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda...

Winner: 2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Fiction 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, Multicultural Fiction Uses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an...

From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness When a late life love affair blooms between Mr...

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say Slum! because he could see no more. But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There s Popo the...

Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival. Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother...