The Wedding
10 best books like The Wedding (Dorothy West): The Transit of Venus, For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Mama Day, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, Disappearing Acts, Big Girls Don't Cry, Brothers and Sisters, Tumbling, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, I Wish I Had a Red Dress
| Author | Shirley Hazzard |
| ISBN | 1860491812 |
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently...
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...
| Author | Gloria Naylor |
| ISBN | 0679721819 |
Bow down, bitches. My favorite novel of the year has emerged. Initially, I didn't even think I would enjoy Mama Day that much; crazy to think that within a span of three days this wonderful novel has completely taken over my life and brought me so much joy and heartache. I'm definitely going to check out...
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0156028646 |
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear...
| Author | Terry McMillan |
| ISBN | 0451209133 |
He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his type. Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker, and a not-quite-divorced daddy of two. Zora Banks was a teacher,...
| Author | Connie Briscoe |
| ISBN | 0060172770 |
Growing up in a loving and supportive middle-class family in Washington, DC, in the '60s, Naomi Jefferson worries about what to wear, her bra size and meeting boys, and she has dreams of one day opening her own clothing store. While she knows racism is a problem (occasional brushes with the uglier side...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0425172678 |
Bebe Moore Campbell’s Brothers and Sisters, originally published by Putnam in 1994* in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, is a true testament to what I wish we could see more of on bestseller lists today. Published during an era of growing racial tensions (though what era doesn’t have that?)...
| Author | Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
| ISBN | 0684837242 |
Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. Its central characters, Herbie and Noon, are a loving but unconventional couple whose marriage remains unconsummated...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0345401123 |
Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town.
Chicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to...
| Author | Pearl Cleage |
| ISBN | 0380804883 |
Cleage captures the mores, culture, and rhythm of black urban youth and the romantic tensions between mature black adults as she weaves contemporary issues into a love story.
Joyce Mitchell was widowed far too young when her beloved husband, Mitch, died in a tragic accident five years ago....
| Author | Tina McElroy Ansa |
| ISBN | 0385476019 |
Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson. Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has grown weary of shouldering the town's problems and wants...
