Knucklehead
A fierce, intelligent, and often hilarious novel about a young African American attorney who struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent ’90s.
Catalog Tag: black interest
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
Forthcoming Titles
Home Girl
Forthcoming: 9/3/19
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
A Tall History of Sugar
Forthcoming: 10/1/19
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
The Freedom Artist
Forthcoming: 2/4/20
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri.
I Am a Promise
Forthcoming: 2/4/20
An inspiring children’s picture book about the indomitable spirit of Jamaican six-time Olympic medal winner Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce.