Sag Harbor – Colson Whitehead, 329 pages, Anchor Books Rating: 4,5 stars Recommended to: Lovers of coming-of-age stories, summer read… Particularity: Coming-of-age story by a black man If you’d like to pick up a copy of Sag Harbor or any of my other recommendations please consider clicking my affiliate link for The Book Depository. It […]
The Unkind Hours is the latest exciting thriller from Dwayne Alexander Smith, the author of terribly underrated Forty Acres. (You need to read Forty Acres if you haven’t already!) We meet an ex-baseball player Steven who’s married to Nichole. They are happily married and have a little girl named Luna who is four years old. […]
There are so many novels that I’d like to reread but the one that comes to mind from an African-American author is Native Son. I first read Native Son in college for a third year literary course. I was blown away by the precision in Richard Wright’s writing style. You will literally go through all […]
This is one of the few vintage Signet editions left from my family’s book collection. It reminds me of my Uncle Lawrence. RIP. He talked a lot about Claude Brown and this book. I’m due for a reread of Manchild in the Promised Land. I read it the year I graduated from high school and […]
#ReadSoulLit is back and should be even more fun this year. If you don’t know what #ReadSoulLit is, it’s a hashtag I started 4 years ago in February to encourage readers to support African-American writers specifically for Black History Month. The hashtag has now become a way of supporting black authors from all over the […]
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