Fiction

The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years--a sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. "A story rendered with so much heart." --Taylor Jenkins...

Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive bewildering humor. Rich with the thrilling textures of township...

Why do people pass? Fifteen writers reveal their experiences with passing. For some, "passing" means opportunity, access, or safety. Others don't willingly pass but are "passed" in specific situations by someone else. We Wear the Mask, edited by Brando...

Watch the shadows because when they come alive; the Sacred Seal is breaking and then chaos will be unleashed. Rhazel Akoben, an ambitious activist, wants to use his skills to improve his community. During a trip to Africa, he finds his Calling, or did it...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!"An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves." -- Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New...

Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel to The Freedom Race Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself. In the disunited states, no...

Brandi loves the little library in town, but when a new librarian tells her she owes fines she knows she doesn't owe, things get interesting.Brandi never felt embarrassed before when checking out her romance novels because the kind, elderly librarian...

Search Sweet Country--one of the greatest novels ever to come out of the African continent--follows the lives of an eclectic and inextricably interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s...