Fiction

In the midst of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, a young woman guided by a mysterious specter grapples with the past and future of her influential Black family. Petronia Slater's life has been plotted out for her since birth, just like every other child...

"Broke my heart from the very first page . . . literary shock and awe at its finest."--Deesha Philyaw, author of The Confessions of First Lady Freeman and The Secret Lives of Church LadiesFrom a ferocious new talent, a debut story collection excavating...

In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood. Clark Wendell White first encountered the Nightmare...

Hard-boiled. Bulletproof. Lethal Force certified. Jon Salvage is a Black private eye with super-hearing working corporate crime cases in Florespark -- and Salvage: Lethal Force is his series launch.He's L.F. certified, works the cases the cops can't...

When traditional remedies meet a new frontier of science -- can long kept family secrets help the world, or doom us all to cosmic oblivion? In a terrifying body horror reimagining of Madam CJ Walker's life, Etta Knight must break a generational curse or...

S. A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed meets Percival Everett's Erasure in this literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1920s to the 1940s, now a filmmaker himself, who returns to his grandmother's cabin retreat in the...

"Ferry Tales sings a new, powerful song of ancestral memory, humor, love, travel, and identity. An ode to the Diaspora"--MK Asante, author of NephewDank, drink, and d*ck are all Anana thinks she needs until she is yanked by an unexpected (and undeniable)...

"Ferry Tales sings a new, powerful song of ancestral memory, humor, love, travel, and identity. An ode to the Diaspora"--MK Asante, author of NephewDank, drink, and d*ck are all Anana thinks she needs until she is yanked by an unexpected (and undeniable)...

When secrets are unleashed, two women must navigate a friendship tested to the extreme in an emotional novel of psychological suspense by the author of A Sky Full of Love.In an affluent Louisiana community, Parker Montgomery has reached the pinnacle of...

Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-hop, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash--one of the...

Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of S?o Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross paths and find that when it comes to what matters most, cultural differences melt away in this insightful, transporting, multi-cultural drama from...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZENamed one of the Washington Post's...