“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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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by Barbara Krauthamer & Deborah Willis -
'Bloodchild' and Other Stories
by Octavia Butler -
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston -
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
by Stephanie Camp -
Wild Seed
by Octavia Butler -
Cane
by Jean Toomer
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