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Burn Down Master’s House
Clay Cane
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
A strong fit for readers drawn to historical fiction about enslavement, rebellion, and the pursuit of freedom.

Burn Down Master’s House
Clay Cane
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Burn Down Master's House follows Luke and Henri, two enslaved men seeking escape from a Virginia plantation, and others whose acts of resistance challenge slavery across the American South. Inspired by true stories, the novel also follows Josephine's quiet defiance and Charity Butler's fight for freedom through the courts. A strong fit for readers drawn to historical fiction about enslavement, rebellion, and the pursuit of freedom.
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Inspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, a searing portrayal of resistance for readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett, from Clay Cane, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Grift.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise. Sparked by individual acts of resistance among those enslaved across the American South, their seemingly disparate rebellions fuel a singular inferno of justice, connecting them in ways quiet at times, explosive at others. As these flames rise, so will they.
Luke, quick-witted and literate, and Henri, a man with a strong and defiant spirit, forge an unbreakable bond at a Virginia plantation called Magnolia Row. Both seek escape from unimaginable cruelty. And sure as the fires of hell, Luke and Henri will leave their mark, sparking resistance among the lives they touch…
One is Josephine, a young, sharp, and observant girl who wields silence as her greatest weapon. A witness to Luke and Henri’s resilience, she listens, watches, waits for the moment to make her move.
Then there is Charity Butler, her husband a formerly enslaved man who proved his ferocity as a young boy standing alongside Josephine. At his encouragement, Charity fights for her freedom in court and wins – only to battle a deeply unjust system designed to destroy the life they’ve built.
And finally, there is Nathaniel, who ruthlessly exploits other Black people and mirrors the cruelty of the white men who, like him, are enslavers. A perversion of the system of slavery, his fragile and contradictory rule will become a catalyst of its own.
Inspired by the true stories of the profoundly courageous men and women who dared to fight back, Burn Down Master’s House is a singular tour de force of a novel—breathtaking in scope, compassion, and a timeliness that speaks powerfully to our present era.
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These Ghosts Are Family
Maisy Card
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
A strong match for readers who enjoy multigenerational family sagas about identity, complicated relationships, and long-hidden secrets.

These Ghosts Are Family
Maisy Card
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Called a “rich, ambitious debut novel” by The New York Times Book Review, These Ghosts Are Family follows Abel Paisley, a Jamaican man who faked his own death and assumed his best friend’s identity. Thirty years later, his firstborn daughter unknowingly arrives to care for the father she believes is dead. Spanning generations from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem, the novel explores the consequences of Abel’s choices and their impact on a family shaped by slavery, migration, infidelity, and loss. A strong match for readers who enjoy multigenerational family sagas about identity, complicated relationships, and long-hidden secrets.
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PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist
Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley.
And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead.
These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions.
This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.
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skin & bones
Renée Watson
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
Ideal for readers looking for contemporary literary fiction about midlife change, family, friendship, identity, and rebuilding after loss.

skin & bones
Renée Watson
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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At 40, Lena Baker believes her life is steady until a confession on her wedding day upends her future. As she navigates heartbreak, motherhood, friendship, and her own self-worth, she also works to preserve the often-overlooked Black history of Oregon, with a 4.3-star average from more than 3,200 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for contemporary literary fiction about midlife change, family, friendship, identity, and rebuilding after loss.
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Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature.
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she’s happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.
Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she’s learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through it all, she works tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses, sidestepping her well-meaning co-workers that don’t understand that their good intentions are often offensive and hurtful.
Through Watson’s poetic voice, skin & bones is a stirring exploration of who society makes space for and is ultimately a story of heartbreak and healing.
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The Red Garden
Alice Hoffman
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
A warm, atmospheric fit for readers drawn to multigenerational literary fiction, small-town history, magical realism, and interconnected lives.

The Red Garden
Alice Hoffman
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color
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A New York Times bestseller praised in a starred Booklist review as “gloriously sensuous, suspenseful, mystical, tragic, and redemptive,” The Red Garden traces 300 years in Blackwell, Massachusetts, through fourteen linked stories about its residents and the land connecting them. At the center is a garden where only red plants grow, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 4,200 Amazon reviewers. A warm, atmospheric fit for readers drawn to multigenerational literary fiction, small-town history, magical realism, and interconnected lives.
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From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious, magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption.
“[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell.”—The Washington Post
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.
At the center of everyone’s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
Beautifully crafted and shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.
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Grant Park
Leonard Pitts
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
A sharp fit for readers drawn to political thrillers that combine newsroom drama, racial history, and election-night suspense.

Grant Park
Leonard Pitts
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · People of Color
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Called “A novel as significant as it is engrossing” by Booklist, Grant Park moves between 1968 and the eve of the 2008 election as two Chicago newspapermen are drawn into a white supremacist plot and forced to confront choices made during the civil rights era, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to political thrillers that combine newsroom drama, racial history, and election-night suspense.
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Two Chicago newspapermen grapple with race and the past in this contemporary terrorist thriller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freeman.
Disillusioned Chicago columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed Black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob
Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication.
While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint—while dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a '60s activist—Toussaint is abducted by two white supremacists plotting to bomb Barack Obama's planned rally in Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to reckon with the choices they made as young men, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement . . .
Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories.
Praise for Grant Park
"A taut thriller that weaves together a stark look at America's tortured racial past with a fast-paced tale of terrorist conspiracy and love rekindled." —Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun Times
"A page-turner, but also one that commands deep reflection on history, racism, and personal choices." —Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times
"Layered, insightful, and passionate. Pitts's subtly explosive language grips readers with the delicate subject matter and earnestly implores them to understand that "[race] has always meant something and it always will." The scars will remain, but stunningly powerful examinations like Grant Park can be the salve that helps heal open wounds." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review
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A Song of Legends Lost
M.H. Ayinde
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
A forgotten power rises just as an old war threatens to consume everything.

A Song of Legends Lost
M.H. Ayinde
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · People of Color
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A forgotten power rises just as an old war threatens to consume everything. In A Song of Legends Lost, Temi’s accidental invocation pulls her into a brutal conflict shaped by rebellion, bloodlines, and buried history. It’s an epic fantasy built on war, ancestral magic, and political fracture, with a sweeping sense of danger and the feeling that legend itself may be turning against the living.
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“The exhilarating must-read fantasy debut of the year.” —Tasha Suri, World Fantasy Award–winning author
An unforgettable tale of revenge and rebellion unfolds when a reckless king implements an ill-fated plan to end a thousand-year war in this relentlessly gripping epic fantasy debut.
A SONG OF REBELLION. A SONG OF WAR. A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.
The people of Nine Lands know their history. The kingdom once belonged to the Scathed people, until their greyblood servants rose up and slaughtered them. King Ahiki and his warlords laid claim to the realm by defeating the rebels and driving them out to the Feverlands.
Now, thousands of years later, attacks by the greybloods are rebuffed by the invoker clans, warriors of noble blood who summon their ancestors to fight with them in battle. But the war has gone on too long. A general draft is called to take the battle to the Feverlands and defeat the greybloods once and for all. A plan that seems doomed to fail.
When Temi, a commoner, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit, she believes it could be the key to ending the centuries-long war. But not everything that can be invoked is an ancestor, and some of the spirits that can be drawn from the ancestral realm are more dangerous than anyone can imagine.
Praise for A Song of Legends Lost:
“Ayinde is a master storyteller.” —Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter
“A whirlwind debut of ferocious talent and compulsive storytelling that lifts you up from the first page and never lets go.” —Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award–winning author
“A truly excellent debut.” —James Islington, author of The Will of the Many
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Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
Survival becomes both a physical and spiritual struggle in a novel shaped by grief, memory, and the brutal machinery of slavery.

Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Survival becomes both a physical and spiritual struggle in a novel shaped by grief, memory, and the brutal machinery of slavery. Let Us Descend follows Annis as she is sold south and forced through an unforgiving landscape, sustained by the voices of her mother, her ancestors, and a world of spirits that blurs myth and history. This literary historical novel offers a harrowing, lyrical reading experience centered on endurance, rebirth, and reclamation.
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.
“Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triumph.” —The Washington Post • “Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.” —People
From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub)—comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that’s destined to become a classic.
Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours” (NPR).
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.
From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this “[s]earing and lyrical…raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet.
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The Last Blue
Isla Morley
Literary Fiction · People of Color
Some lives are marked as strange before they are ever allowed to be fully seen.

The Last Blue
Isla Morley
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Some lives are marked as strange before they are ever allowed to be fully seen. In The Last Blue, a woman in 1930s Appalachia whose skin is blue becomes the focus of a photographer’s final assignment, and the connection that follows reshapes both their lives. This historical novel blends love, isolation, prejudice, and longing into a story about identity, spectacle, and what it means to be truly singular.
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In this luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky,” Isla Morley probes questions of identity, love, and family in her breathtaking new novel.
In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio—a writer and photographer—are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the remote Spooklight Holler outside of town, they set off eagerly in search of a headline story. What they see will haunt Clay into his old age: Jubilee Buford, a woman whose skin is a shocking and unmistakable shade of blue. From this happenstance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her whole life, and a man accustomed to keeping himself at lens distance from others, comes a mesmerizing story in which the dark shades of betrayal, prejudice, fear, and guilt, are refracted along with the incandescent hues of passion and courage. Panning across the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky, The Last Blue is a captivating love story and an intimate portrait of what it is like to be truly one of a kind.
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Where the Wildflowers Grow
Terah Shelton Harris
Literary Fiction · People of Color
Best for readers who like emotional literary fiction about grief, redemption, found family, rural refuge, and healing from the past.

Where the Wildflowers Grow
Terah Shelton Harris
Literary Fiction · People of Color · Women's Fiction
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Where the Wildflowers Grow follows Leigh, the last of the Wildes, after she survives a prison transport crash and finds refuge on a rural Alabama flower farm where found family, tenderness, and buried secrets force her to face what she can survive, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like emotional literary fiction about grief, redemption, found family, rural refuge, and healing from the past.
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Goodreads, Essence, Sunset Magazine, SheReads, BookBub, and more!
From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living.
Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die.
Grief never truly fades and even as the tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on, because survival is in her blood. So, when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what's in her nature. She survives.
While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm in rural Alabama tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn't expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives. Especially Jackson, the farm's owner, who sees through Leigh's defenses, offers her small moments of tenderness, encourages her to face her own tragedies. Slowly, Leigh finds peace with the hard pace and soft nature of the farm, taking comfort in the life blooming around her. Maybe she's not beyond redemption, not too broken for something good. And maybe, just maybe, Leigh starts to heal.
But the past isn't so easily buried.
No matter how far she runs, the truth of who she is and the ghosts of the Wildes follow. And when those secrets catch up to her, threatening everything she's come to love, Leigh will have to truly face what she can survive.
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The American Queen
Vanessa Miller
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
Freedom demands more than escape when history refuses to loosen its grip.

The American Queen
Vanessa Miller
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · People of Color
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Freedom demands more than escape when history refuses to loosen its grip. After enduring enslavement and loss, Louella helps lead her community from a plantation toward the promise of self-rule in Appalachia. As she rises to become queen of the Kingdom of the Happy Land, The American Queen traces resilience, faith, and the pursuit of dignity in post–Civil War America.
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A WOMAN EVOLVE BOOK CLUB PICK | A NORTH CAROLINA READS PICK | A Christy Award WINNER | A 2024 American Fiction Award WINNER | A 2025 Audie Awards WINNER | Best Historical Fiction of 2024 (She Reads) | FEATURED IN GMA, WASHINGTON POST, AND ESSENCE | There is only one known queen who truly ruled a kingdom on American soil. Meet the queen of Happy Land in this riveting novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Vanessa Miller.
"This powerful story must be told and retold." --GMA 15 New Books to Read (Good Morning America)
"A hidden gem in American history." --Publishers Weekly
"This marvel of a novel transported me." --Sadeqa Johnson, NYT bestselling author
"A story [about] . . . the indomitable spirit of a woman." --Lisa Wingate #1 NYT bestselling author
"Inspirational and unforgettable." --Kim Michele Richardson, NYT bestselling author
"A triumph." --Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author
Transformative and breathtakingly honest, The American Queen is based on actual events that occurred between 1865 - 1889 and shares the unsung history of a Black woman who built a kingdom in Appalachia as a refuge for the courageous people who dared to dream of a different way of life.
Over the twenty-four years she was enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose. Hate so powerful there's no room in her heart for love, not even for the honorable Reverend William, whom she likes and respects enough to marry.
But when William finally listens to Louella's pleas and leads the formerly enslaved people off the plantation, Louella begins to replace her hate with hope. Hope that they will find a place where they can live free from fear. Hope that despite her many unanswered prayers, she can learn to trust for new miracles.
Soon, William and Louella become the appointed king and queen of their self-proclaimed Kingdom of the Happy Land. And though they are still surrounded by opposition, they continue to share a message of joy and goodness--and fight for the freedom and dignity of all.
The American Queen weaves together themes of love, hate, hope, trust, and resilience in the face of great turmoil. With every turn of the page, you will be transported to a pivotal period in American history, where oppressed people become extraordinary heroes.
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Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering
Wild Seed unfolds as a centuries-long confrontation between two immortals bound by power, desire, and control.

Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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Wild Seed unfolds as a centuries-long confrontation between two immortals bound by power, desire, and control. Doro shapes humanity through ruthless breeding and domination, while Anyanwu builds communities through healing and care. When their paths collide, attraction becomes coercion and survival becomes negotiation. This novel explores immortality, consent, and legacy through an intimate struggle that reshapes generations.
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From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race.
Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one—until he meets Anyanwu.
Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu—until she meets Doro.
The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.
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People Like Us
Jason Mott
Literary Fiction · People of Color
Two intertwined lives move through grief, memory, and violence as reality bends around them in unexpected ways.

People Like Us
Jason Mott
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Two intertwined lives move through grief, memory, and violence as reality bends around them in unexpected ways. As one Black writer travels the world after sudden success and another prepares to speak in the aftermath of a school shooting, their stories blur into something surreal and deeply human. People Like Us blends literary fiction with dreamlike elements to explore belonging, love, and endurance in a fractured world.
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The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book
People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt.
In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.
People Like Us is wickedly funny and achingly sad all at once. It is an utter triumph bursting with larger-than-life characters who deliver a very real take on our world. This book contains characters experiencing deep loss and longing; it also is buoyed by riotous humor and characters who share the deepest love. It is the newest creation of a writer whose work amazes, delivering something utterly new yet instantly recognizable as a Jason Mott novel.
Finishing the novel will leave you absolutely breathless and, at the same time, utterly filled with joy for life, changed forever by characters who are people like us.
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