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Grace Jefferson is an educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream, and she knows it well. But after a series of rattling personal transitions, she finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. Caught between the only two models of mothering she has ever known -- a sharecropping grandmother who abandoned her children to save herself and a mother...
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Kim's previous essay collection, Womanish, which we published in 2019, sold over 3000 copies, and was reviewed in the New York Times, and excerpted in the Washington Post.
Blurbs to come from Jerald Walker, whose 2020 collection, How To Make A Slave and Other Essays, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Marita Golden, author of The Strong Black Woman and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
Kim teaches at Emerson College and lives...
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Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin's 1962 novel, Another Country, is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality.
In her volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her appreciation of this seminal novel, demonstrating how its myriad themes- including relations between men and women (gay...
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c2001
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Porter Stockman, a determined white reporter, is covering the riots in the streets of South Central Los Angeles for the Philadelphia Record on the day that four Los Angeles police officers are acquitted of assaulting Rodney King. When Lenora Page, a black woman, risks her own safety to come to his aid and then disappears into the chaos, Porter fears he'll never see her again. But weeks later their paths intersect once more when Lenora -- a prominent...