Fiction - Literary

When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, th...

Held captive by her employers — and by her own demons — on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely Am...

A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world. Winner of the Ferro-...

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master...

"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." --The New York Times Book Review Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., ...

Our Nig, Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House is a classic African American history text by Harriet E. Wilson t...

The landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?” It’s New Year’s Day 1933 in New York City, ...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONIn the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage rela...

“Assured and arresting...You cannot put it down.”” (Chicago Tribune) The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforget...

The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her f...

A NATALIE PORTMAN BOOK CLUB PICK FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION. "The electrifying fiction debut that has b...

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction A "splendid and grand collection" (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Kno...

"It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man." And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving hi...