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by Ayana Mathis
Published Jun 2024
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival.
The World According to Fannie Davis
by Bridgett M. Davis
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsA singular memoir that tells the story of one unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and the life they lead in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s.
by Jesmyn Ward
Published May 2018
Read ReviewsA searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
by Yaa Gyasi
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Debut Author Award
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape ...
by Angela Flournoy
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsA powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family.
by Greg Iles
Published Aug 2015
Read ReviewsRich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning is tense and disturbing, the most explosive, exciting, sexy, and ambitious story Greg Iles has written yet.
by Elise Juska
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsThrough departures and arrivals, weddings and reunions, The Blessings reveals the interior worlds of the members of a close-knit Irish-Catholic family and the rituals that unite them.
by Linda Olsson
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemption
by Jonathan Odell
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsThe pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won't soon forget.
by Kathryn Stockett
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a small town in 1960s Mississippi, and the way women mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends view one another. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
by Anna Jean Mayhew
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsIn this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation and what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood and for the woman who means the world to her.
by Hillary Jordan
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsIt is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its ...
by Harper Lee
Published Jul 1960
Read ReviewsHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.
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