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African American Fiction March 2020
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Shades of Fiction Book Club Discussion
Monday, April 6, 6:30
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
As Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents' house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody's own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place in this novel about different social classes.
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Trouble is what I do
by Walter Mosley
Detective Leonid McGill is forced to confront the ghost of his felonious past when a nonagenarian Mississippi bluesman is targeted by an infamous assassin. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Down the River Unto the Sea. 25,000 first printing.
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All the Things I Should Have Known
by Tiffany L. Warren
Three single, successful, 40-something friends give up trying to find perfect husbands and embark on romantic adventures being sugar mamas to gorgeous young men only to discover that relationships with no strings attached are more complicated than originally believed. Original.
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The safe house
by Kiki Swinson
With the local police closing in on her as the prime suspect in her abusive boyfriend’s disappearance, a fierce, strong woman has got no choice but to ditch the feds and take down a cartel leader on her own. By a national best-selling author.
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Picks for Book Club Reads
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat : a novel
by Edward Kelsey Moore
Forging a friendship at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean meet regularly at the first diner owned by black proprietors in their Indiana city and are watched throughout the years by a big-hearted man who observes their struggles with school, marriage, parenthood and beyond. 100,000 first printing.
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My sister, the serial killer : a novel
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that's as fun as it is frightening"
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Black water rising
by Attica Locke
When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite
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