Going Down South
10 best books like Going Down South (Bonnie Glover): Glorious, Life Is Short But Wide, If Sons, Then Heirs, Third Girl from the Left, Orange Mint and Honey, Freshwater Road, Resurrecting Mingus, Child of God, The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive, Imani All Mine
| Author | Bernice L. McFadden |
| ISBN | 1936070111 |
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose...
| 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...
The critically acclaimed author of Black Ice, Pride, and The Price of a Child offers this deeply moving story of a family’s challenge to reunite, understand the truth about its past, and secure its legacy.
If Sons, Then Heirs sheds light on a uniquely American, largely untold...
| Author | Martha Southgate |
| ISBN | 0618470239 |
With Third Girl from the Left, Southgate brings her acute vision and emotional scope to a larger canvas. This enormously entertaining yet serious novel tells a story of African-American women struggling against all odds to express what lies deepest in their hearts. Like Michael Chabon’s The Amazing...
| 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...
| Author | Denise Nicholas |
| ISBN | 1416524827 |
When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in Freedom Summer, she's assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred only a few years earlier. As the long, hot summer...
| Author | Jenoyne Adams |
| ISBN | 0671787810 |
Resurrecting Mingus is the story of a young woman lost -- striving to find her own identity while dealing with powerful and painful questions that force her to confront everything and everyone that matters to her. In this stunning debut novel, Jenoyne Adams, a PEN Center USA West Emerging Voices Fellow,...
| Author | Lolita Files |
| ISBN | 0743278798 |
In this searing novel, bestselling author Lolita Files tells the tale of a Southern family torn apart by the secrets it struggles to keep.
Everybody knows everybody else's business in Downtown, Tennessee. Neighbors while away afternoons at the local bar, swapping rumors about voodoo, incest,...
The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive
| Author | Marvelyn Brown |
| ISBN | 0061562394 |
The surprisingly hopeful story of how a straight, nonpromiscuous, everyday girl contracted HIV and how she manages to stay upbeat, inspired, and more positive about life than ever before
At nineteen years of age, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white hospital bed at Tennessee Christian...
| Author | Connie Rose Porter |
| ISBN | 0618056785 |
"With authority and grace" (Essence), Imani All Mine tells the story of Tasha, a fourteen-year-old unwed mother of a baby girl. In her ghettoized world where poverty, racism, and danger are daily struggles, Tasha uses her savvy and humor to uncover the good hidden around her. The name she gives her daughter,...
Born in London to a Nigerian princess, Precious Williams saw her life change radically in its first months. Her mother, deciding she couldn't raise a child, placed an ad for foster care in Nursery World. A response soon came from a woman in rural Sussex, and Precious, three months old, was handed off in...
A Taste of Honey: Stories
| Author | Jabari Asim |
| ISBN | 0767919785 |
Poignant and powerful, this debut collection from preeminent writer and critic Jabari Asim heralds his arrival as an exciting new voice in African American fiction.
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Through a series of fictional episodes set against the backdrop...
| Author | Pearl Cleage |
| ISBN | 0345481127 |
For Josephine Evans, home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Josephine was the toast of Europe, and her fabulous apartment in Amsterdam’s theater district was a popular gathering place for an international...
In the same vein of Kalisha Buckhanon’s critically-acclaimed debut novel Upstate, again she shares an emotionally beautiful story about today’s youth that magnifies the unforgettable power of hope and the human spirit.
Buckhanon takes us to Chicago, 1992, and into the life of fifteen-year-old...
When Love Calls, You Better Answer
| Author | Bertice Berry |
| ISBN | 0767916387 |
The author of the hit Redemption Song returns with a sparkling new novel about looking for love in all the wrong places—and with all the wrong people.
Full of spirit and wisdom, the novels of Bertice Berry bring to life a rich tapestry of human experience. Now she turns her eye to matters of...
Trading Dreams at Midnight
| Author | Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
| ISBN | 0688163866 |
Fifteen-year-old Neena and her younger sister, Tish, are certain their mother will return, flush with the promise of a new man. But Freeda's disappearance on the cold February morning in 1984 soon stretches from days to months and from months to years. Raised by their stern grandmother Nan, the two...
| Author | Shelly Ellis |
| ISBN | 1617733954 |
"An immensely talented writer." –Cydney Rax
One by one, the infamous Gibbons sisters of Chesterton, Virginia, are giving up their gold digging ways--except the eldest, who's holding out for her seven figure man. But her heart may have less expensive tastes. . .
Thanks to her...
| Author | Vanessa Davis Griggs |
| ISBN | 0758217366 |
Vanessa Davis Griggs takes the reader inside of each character, or to find yourself in their situations to better understand what they do. In this book, we are getting more insight on Charity split personality comes out after a tragedic accident happened in her childhood. Sapphire assumed she was molested,...
One Day I Saw a Black King
| Author | J.D. Mason |
| ISBN | 0312301545 |
"He stared at himself in the mirror, wondering how he'd managed to lose track of time. Complacency had managed to set in again. . . A decent job, warm home, food on the table, and a body to curl up next to at night; he'd made the mistake of getting comfortable. Comfort fooled him into thinking it was all good...
Narrated in the voice of her younger sister, Fish and Grits chronicles the life of Kala Johnson, an African American girl who finds redemption from abuse by eating a forbidden meal. After the death of her father, fourteen year old Kala, an exceptional student who dreams about the future before it happens,...
Blackberry Days of Summer
| Author | Ruth P. Watson |
| ISBN | 1593094132 |
In an exciting historical whodunit, a young black man is murdered and even though suspects abound, no one is trying too hard to find his killer. The novel begins as ?The Great War? is coming to an end. As Robert Parker?s body is lowered into the grave, Herman Camm introduces himself to the mourning family....
| Author | Lori L. Tharps |
| ISBN | 1439171106 |
Zora Anderson is a 30-year-old African American middle class, college educated woman, trained as a chef, looking for a job. As fate would have it, Kate and Brad Carter, a married couple, aspiring professionals with a young child are looking for a nanny.Zora seems perfect. She’s an enthusiastic...
