Black bag job no books in shelf3/13/2024 ![]() ![]() The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles.Įasy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. ![]() The first novel by “master of mystery” ( The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. ![]() Monica West’s transporting coming-of-age novel explores complicated family and what it means to live among the community of the faithful. Over the course of the next year, Miriam must decide between her faith, her family, and her newfound power that might be able to save others, but, if discovered by her father, could destroy Miriam.Ĭelebrating both feminism and faith, Revival Season is a story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a Southern, black, Evangelical community. When the Hortons return home, Miriam’s confusion only grows as she discovers she might have the power to heal-even though her father and the church have always made it clear that such power is denied to women. The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this “tender and wise” (Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth) debut novel.Įvery summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam’s father-one of the South’s most famous preachers-holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease.This summer, the revival season doesn’t go as planned, and after one service in which Reverend Horton’s healing powers are tested like never before, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in her father-and in her faith. Brilliantly “skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism” ( Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike “smart, funny, and sharp” (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history “that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves” ( The Wall Street Journal). ![]() They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan.Ĭity’s two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother’s house, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called.Baize Shephard. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson-but Long Division is set in 1985. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.īefore leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” ( The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. ![]()
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