Fiction

"Emotional range without consequence," debut essayist Negesti Kaudo writes, is a privilege of whiteness. In Ripe, she fights back, exhorting readers to follow her through fury, grief, love, and hope as she confronts what it means to own her Blackness...

With infidelity behind them, Tai's marriage to her pastor husband, King, is stronger than ever. Even when King's ex-lover, Tootie, comes back to town, Tai keeps her cool. . .until she hears Tootie has a teenage son no one knew existed--a son who could be...

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Ólafsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist,...

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Ólafsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist,...

*Winner--First Prize in the Colorado Authors League Award, Science Fiction and Fantasy Category!* The adventures of Li-lin, a Daoist priestess with the unique ability to see the spirit world, continue in the thrilling follow-up to the...

Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation. The four group members are as...