Just Above My Head: A Novel

Just Above My Head: A NovelJames Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his

This book builds on Crim's personal experiences

So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina

and rhetorical flair to explain concepts like substantive due process and the right for the LGBTQ community to buy a cake

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Weaving her own history and identity throughout

Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters

Edwidge Danticat

Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation

Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships

Bao Family Cookbooksymbolizes the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the modernity of Parisian life

as Bianca learns when she and her best friend

and though Rosalind finds Orion's cavalier attitude and playboy demeanor infuriating