“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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Milo's Museum
by Purple Wong (Illustrator) & Zetta Elliott -
Firebird
by Misty Copeland -
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
by Nell Irvin Painter -
Kindred
by Octavia Butler -
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
by Jean-Michel Basquiat & Maya Angelou -
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915
by Mitch Kachun
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