Heads of the Colored People
By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, an…
Want to Read $ 12.99"As a funeral singer, she had more gigs than she wanted and paid for the fertility treatments on her own with the profits, though it seemed wrong to call them that."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"Marjorie was only thirty-seven, but she felt older than her peers; some of them would say she felt better than them, too. But that wasn't true. If anything, she felt inferior for all the many ways she failed at keeping herself unspotted from the world."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She did not want to be one of those people who went to therapy for the rest of their lives, blathering on about what "my therapist said" or "what we uncovered in therapy." It struck Marjorie that those people never got any better; they just used longer and more complicated phrases to say things."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She knew that she should feel discontentment, connected to a large chain of disenfranchisement or systemic persecution--it's not that black death and the news of the world didn't touch her spirit--but she was somewhat ashamed to say, in therapy or publicly, that the bulk of her discontentment came from having very little about which to be discontented."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
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2. Leonce und Lena
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3. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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In Who Will Greet You at Homea woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling … read more
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4. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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5. The Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
4.18
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more
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"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
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"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
6. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
7. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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8. Holler, Child: Stories
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4.14
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9. Neighbors and Other Stories
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4.04
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"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
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"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
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3.01
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11. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
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12. Hip-Hop Is History
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13. Heads of the Colored People
By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, an… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
"As a funeral singer, she had more gigs than she wanted and paid for the fertility treatments on her own with the profits, though it seemed wrong to call them that."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"Marjorie was only thirty-seven, but she felt older than her peers; some of them would say she felt better than them, too. But that wasn't true. If anything, she felt inferior for all the many ways sh…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She did not want to be one of those people who went to therapy for the rest of their lives, blathering on about what "my therapist said" or "what we uncovered in therapy." It struck Marjorie that tho…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She knew that she should feel discontentment, connected to a large chain of disenfranchisement or systemic persecution--it's not that black death and the news of the world didn't touch her spirit--bu…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
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"I thought [...] of all the negotiating and navigating it requires to exist while black and relatively sane. And how, for the rest of them, for my [white] teammates and the [white] guys we just played…"-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
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3.54
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20. Training School for Negro Girls
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3.73
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21. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
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