Breath, Eyes, Memory
10 best books like Breath, Eyes, Memory (Edwidge Danticat): White Oleander, Paradise, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Brown Girl, Brownstones, In Another Place, Not Here, Abeng, Myal, In Search of Satisfaction, The Rapture of Canaan, The Heart of a Woman
| Author | Janet Fitch |
| ISBN | 0316182540 |
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452280397 |
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American women's literature--with a debut novel that sings and crackles with life-affirming energy as it moves the reader to laughter and tears.
As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson...
| Author | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 1558614982 |
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wants to "buy house" and educate...
| Author | Dionne Brand |
| ISBN | 0802136338 |
Acclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous . . . a work of great beauty and moral imagination," In Another Place, Not Here tells of two contemporary Caribbean women who find brief refuge in each other on an island in the midst of political uprising. Elizete, dreaming of running to another place to...
| Author | Michelle Cliff |
| ISBN | 0452274834 |
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Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere...
| Author | Erna Brodber |
| ISBN | 0901241865 |
Jamaican-born novelist and sociologist Erna Brodber describes Myal as “an exploration of the links between the way of life forged by the people of two points of the black diaspora—the Afro-Americans and the Afro-Jamaicans.” Operating on many literary levels—thematically, linguistically,...
| Author | J. California Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385467869 |
The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper has proven that hers is a wholly original talent --one that embraces readers...
| Author | Sheri Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0425162443 |
Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 0375500723 |
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters...
| Author | A. Manette Ansay |
| ISBN | 0060897848 |
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field,...
| Author | Kaye Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0375703063 |
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked...
| Author | Diane Wolkstein |
| ISBN | 0805210776 |
When Diane Wolkstein, herself a well-known storyteller traveled throughout the Haitian countryside in search of stories, she harvested a rich collection of twenty-seven tales, each of which is illuminated by fascinating introductory notes. From orange trees growing at the command of a child to...
| Author | Breena Clarke |
| ISBN | 0316899984 |
The acclaimed bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club--that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.
River, Cross My Heart marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller...
| Author | Mary McGarry Morris |
| ISBN | 0140244824 |
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen...
| Author | Bill Cosby |
| ISBN | 0590956175 |
[Scholastic Readers Level 3]
This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But...
Masters of the Dew (Caribbean Writers Series)
| Author | Jacques Roumain |
| ISBN | 0435987453 |
This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.
The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working...
| Author | Asha Bandele |
| ISBN | 0743417984 |
At nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed,...
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0385476337 |
In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au...
| Author | Toi Derricotte |
| ISBN | 0393319016 |
The Black Notebooks is a study in contrasts. It is a study written by Toi Derricotte, an award winning poet and university professor, who wrote this book over a period of approximately twenty years. It could be described as a memoir because it is based on Derricotte’s reflections on her own life but...
| Author | Marie Vieux-Chauvet |
| ISBN | 0679643516 |
Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti....
