“Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative.” —Toni Morrison Expanding the canon of African American literature, alongside Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Sherley Anne Williams’ critically acclaimed and unforgettable Dessa Rose is a novel of two powerfully conceived female protagonists forging a vital friendship in the face of racial divides in the antebellum South.

Dessa Rose: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Williams, Sherley A.

United States

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

Working Cotton (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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Poems evoke images of Bessie Smith, contemporary Black women, and New England Blacks in the era of the Emancipation as well as probing social roles and self-images

Someone Sweet Angel Chile

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