General 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...

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...

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...

"Philyaw has created a heroine you can't help but root for, and a book you can't help but love." - Rufi Thorpe, author of Margo's Got Money Troubles"Smart and juicy and compulsively readable." - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The...

James Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). Arthur Montana, celebrated gospel singer, has been found collapsed in a London pub at the age of thirty-nine. His brother,...

An allegorical love story -- a modern day Alchemist meets The Never Ending Story --set in a world where a book shopkeeper becomes a reluctant matchmaker, bringing soulmates together through books.It's Me They Follow is an allegorical love story set in a...