“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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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford & Euka Holmes -
Exodus: Religion, Race and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
by Eddie S Glaude Jr -
I Am Enough
by Grace Byers & Keturah Bobo (Illustrator) -
Josephine: A Dazzling Life
by Christian Robinson & Patricia Hruby Powell -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
by Robin D G Kelley -
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
by John Steptoe
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