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Historical Fiction April 2023 |
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Stealing : a novel by Margaret VerbleIn the 1950s, strong-willed and shrewd Kit Crockett, ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to a religious boarding school, she, along with the other Native students, is stripped of her heritage, force-fed Christian indoctrination and is sexually abused until she decides to fight back.
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Homestead by Melinda MoustakisA young couple in 1956 Anchorage work hard at homesteading in an attempt to secure a deed to their land as the Territory of Alaska moves toward statehood and inescapable change.
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Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Set during the rise of the Mafia in 19th-century Sicily, this epic story of good vs evil follows four individuals?—?a desperate lemon grower; an idealistic lawyer with a secret life; a new mother; and a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew?—?as their lives collide.
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| The House of Eve by Sadeqa JohnsonWhat it's about: two young, aspirational Black women navigating unplanned pregnancies in 1950s America.
Starring: Eleanor Quarles, a Howard University sophomore who falls in love with a student from an upper-class background; Ruby Pearsall, a high school junior who wants to be the first in her family to go to college.
About the author: Sadeqa Johnson is a bestselling author and winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award whose previous books include And Then There Was Me and The Yellow Wife. |
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Wandering souls : a novel by Cecile PinSeeking refuge in the UK after the last American troops leave Vietnam, Anh and her younger brothers, in a London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment, find their paths diverging as time passes, wondering if love alone can keep them together.
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| Stone Blind by Natalie HaynesWhat it is: a compelling and thought-provoking reimagining of the story of Medusa, a beautiful young woman cursed by a jealous Athena to turn every living thing she looked upon to stone.
Read it for: the heartbreaking portrait of Medusa’s loneliness; her sardonic reflections on other famous figures whose stories intersect with her own, such Perseus.
Reviewers say: “this tale evokes passionate fury on behalf of its heroine, a tragic victim of male violence” (Booklist). |
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Black candle women : a novel by Diane Marie BrownFollows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.
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Weyward : a novel by Emilia HartTold over five centuries through three connected women, this riveting novel follows Kate, in 2019, as she seeks refuge in Weyward Cottage; Altha, in 1619, as she uses her powers to maintain her freedom; and Violet, in 1942, as she searches for the truth about her mother's death.
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Victory city : a novel by Salman RushdieGiving rise to the great city Bisnaga, a wonder of the world, Pampa Kampana, the vessel for her namesake, the goddess Pampa, who has given her powers beyond her comprehension, attempts, over the centuries, to make good on the task the goddess set for her: women equal agency in a patriarchal world.
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