Wilkinson, Crystal

Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024

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Leon, Joel

Summary: "A beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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Smith, Tracy K.

Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Wideman, John Edgar

Summary: "John Edgar Wideman's "slaveroad" is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner

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