Dessa Rose

9 best books like Dessa Rose (Sherley Anne Williams): Paradise, Jazz, A Mercy, For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Much Ado About Nothing, Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South, The Rescuers, Bonfires and Broomsticks

Paradise

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...

Jazz

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	0452269652

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story...

A Mercy

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	0307264238

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic...

For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Author	Ntozake Shange
ISBN	0684843269

A revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet about the experiences of women of color.

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have...

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0895941228

in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...

Much Ado About Nothing

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482751

Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...

Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South

Author	Albert J. Raboteau
ISBN	0195174127

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years,...

The Rescuers

Author	Margery Sharp
ISBN	0316783552

I remember seeing The Rescuers film en francais back when I was in the third grade, but it took me until now to read the book. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, why am I reading a kids' book? Well, when it comes to great stories, I think you can be any age to read them. This one, a classic by Margery Sharp (she...

Bonfires and Broomsticks

Author	Mary Norton
ISBN	0460881760

3.5 stars for this 1947 children's fantasy. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In Bonfires and Broomsticks, part two of Mary Norton’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks duology, it’s two years after events of the first book, The Magic Bed-Knob. The three young siblings, Carey, Charles...