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African American LiteratureNovember 2020 |
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Across the way
by Mary Monroe
Tensions between the bootlegging Hamiltons and the respectable Watson families in Depression-era Alabama reach a boiling point that leads to lies, deceit and violence, in the finale of the Neighbors series. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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The secret lives of church ladies
by Deesha Philyaw
"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"
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The business of lovers : A Novel
by Eric Jerome Dickey
While a father struggles to reconnect with his estranged son and spiteful ex, his bodyguard brother is invited by three women escorts to consider a job as a male prostitute. By the NAACP Image Award-winning author of A Wanted Woman.
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The deadline
by Kiki Swinson
Desperate to break a major exclusive to secure a coveted anchor desk slot, an off-air TV news reporter risks her family’s safety to investigate a murder in her Southern home town. By the author of Wifey.
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Black Sunday : a novel
by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Joining a new church in 1996 Lagos in the face of impoverishing losses, twins Bibike and Riyike find their bond challenged by wrenching hardships, a father’s reckless choice and their respective views on independence. A first novel.
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Books You Might Have Missed
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My Best Friend's Girl
by Dorothy Koomson
This Sunday Times best-selling novel is an emotive and tender story about friendship and how a single moment can turn your live upside down.
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Surviving the chase
by Lisa Renee Johnson
Abandoned by her mother as a child, Payton wants no reminders of her past and no commitments, but when she uncovers a shattering connection to a serial killer who is hunting her estranged mother, she teams up with her best friend's husband, who almost became a victim of the killer himself, to stop her
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