“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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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler -
The Narrows
by Ann Petry -
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera Hunter -
Fledgling
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
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