“Thomas Hardy, full of his own instructions to damaged mankind, would have loved this book.”
Novelist John Irving's review of Tar Baby in the New York Times, March 29, 1981
Our most recommended books
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston -
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
by Stephanie Camp -
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler -
The Narrows
by Ann Petry -
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by Barbara Krauthamer & Deborah Willis -
'Bloodchild' and Other Stories
by Octavia Butler
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