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• An American Marriage

  a Novel

  Jones, Tayari

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  Roy and Celeste, an upwardly mobile professional couple living in Atlanta, travel to Louisiana to visit Roy's parents, When Roy is accused of a crime he doesn't commit, their lives are forever changed.

• Boy, Snow, Bird

  Oyeyemi, Helen

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  What happens when a light-skinned African American couple posing as Caucasian conceive a dark-skinned child?

• The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

  Gray, Anissa

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  When highly respected local couple Althea and her husband Proctor are arrested, Althea's younger sisters - who view her as the matriarch of the family - must learn to cope with this most unexpected turn of affairs.

• The Darkest Child

  Phillips, Delores, 1950-

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  Rozelle Quinn, who can pass for being white, values her children for the lightness of their skin color over other valuable attributes like intelligence.

• Men We Reaped

  a Memoir

  Ward, Jesmyn

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  Jesmyn Ward explores the dangers of being an African American man in the rural South.

• Silver Sparrow

  Jones, Tayari

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  James Witherspoon has two families - complete with children - but only one knows about the other. When two of the daughters become friends, it's only a matter of time before disaster strikes.

• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

  Mathis, Ayana

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  Hattie marries a disappointment of a man, subsequently gives birth to ten children, and does her best to prepare them to face a cruel and harsh world.

• The Women of Brewster Place

  Naylor, Gloria

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  The story of a rotting tenement called Brewster Place and the heartbreaking struggles of the women who live there.

• Yellow Crocus

  Ibrahim, Laila

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  Lisbeth is born to privilege, but upon her birth, she becomes the charge of an enslaved wet nurse. With both of her parents disengaged, Lisbeth turns to the enslaved community for stimulation and love.