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One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star

At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself,...

Frank Money hat den Koreakrieg überlebt - als Einziger von drei Freiwilligen aus Lotus, Georgia. Nun findet er sich im segregierten, rassistischen Amerika der 1950er-Jahre wieder: getrennte Restaurants, Hotels, Waschräume und Drangsalierungen durch die Polizei. Dann erreicht ihn die Nachricht, dass seine geliebte kleine Schwester Cee sich in großer Gefahr befindet. Obwohl er nie mehr nach Lotus zurückwollte, muss er in seinen Heimatort reisen, zu seinem Elternhaus, wo bittere Geheimnisse ans Tageslicht kommen und wo er lernen wird, was es braucht, um zu heilen. Und was es bedeutet,...

Sula has the same power, the same beauty.

At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes....

National Bestseller

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new...

We, the creators of Who's Got Game? were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables -- their vitality, their endless demand for more interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralisitic endings reimagined; the victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may...