Glorious
10 best books like Glorious (Bernice L. McFadden): The Darkest Child, Family, Life Is Short But Wide, Leaving Atlanta, Red at the Bone, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, Thick: And Other Essays, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe, Speaking of Summer, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
| Author | Delores Phillips |
| ISBN | 1569473781 |
Bakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises...
| Author | J. California Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385411723 |
"History. Lived, not written, is such a thing not to understand always, but to marvel over. Time is so forever that life has many instances when you can say 'Once upon a time' thousands of times in one life."
From the first line of this book, one that I read and read and read again, I was impressed....
| Author | J. California Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385511345 |
Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, LIFE IS SHORT BUT WIDE is an irresistible story of family that proves no matter who you are or what you do, you are...
| Author | Tayari Jones |
| ISBN | 0446690899 |
For me, this is the first story that I can ever remember reading that shared my voice as a child growing up in a major Southern city. It took place at a time when, first of all, it's tough growing up and being eleven years old and then to deal with a real-live nationally-known bogeyman lurking around the city...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0525535276 |
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.
As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
| Author | Bridgett M. Davis |
| ISBN | 0316558737 |
Set against the backdrop of Detroit in the 1960's and 1970's, the story of the life of a one-of-a-kind matriarch whose business in the Numbers made her daughter's dreams come true.
The World According to Fannie Davis is Bridgett Davis's unforgettable coming of age in a family with a secret....
| Author | Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| ISBN | 1620974363 |
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals
Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
| Author | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon |
| ISBN | 0061732370 |
The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war—a rare achievement for any Afghan woman—Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother...
The new novel from the author of Upstate, one of five books selected by the National Book Foundation for the inaugural Literature for Justice Program: a literary thriller about one woman's desperate search for her missing twin sister, a multi-layered mystery set against the neighborhoods of Harlem.
On...
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
| Author | Nefertiti Austin |
| ISBN | 1492679011 |
In America, Mother = White
That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted...
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie’s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
| Author | Brittney Cooper |
| ISBN | 1250112575 |
An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY: The New York Public Library • Bustle • The Root • NPR
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Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace")
Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching,...
| Author | Carleen Brice |
| ISBN | 0345499069 |
Broke and burned-out from grad school, Shay Dixon does the unthinkable after receiving a “vision” from her de facto spiritual adviser, blues singer Nina Simone. She phones Nona, the mother she had all but written off, asking if she can come home for a while.
When Shay was growing up, Nona...
Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
| Author | Brooke McAlary |
| ISBN | 1492665541 |
Are you constantly striving to keep up with life's busy expectations? It's easy to feel consumed with the desire to "succeed" and "acquire", and miss the simple opportunities waiting for you to slow down: a walk in the forest, sharing laughter with family, a personal moment of gratitude...
Once...
