When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times bes...
By Sadeqa Johnson Simon & Schuster 288 pp. Reviewed byClarissa Harwood January 14, 2021 A sobering, graphically violent story of a light-skinned slave struggling to survive in the 19th-century South. Virginia, 1850. Seventeen-year-old Pheby is treated better than the other slaves on Master Jac...
Some of the genre's best new releases this year are inspired by true stories and real people, while others tell original stories to uncover the corners of history that might be forgotten. Authors like Chanel Cleeton, Sophfronia Scott, Sadeqa Johnson, and Vanessa Riley paint vivid pictures of...
Love In A Carry-On Bag by Sadeqa Johnson (12th Street Press, Mar 20, 2012) Niv Lessons From Life Bible: Personal Reflections With Jimmy Carter by Jimmy Carter (Amistad, Mar 17, 2012) Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World by Crystal McCrary (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Ma...
That said, I’ve been delighted to see works by diverse authors appear on the shelves in greater numbers, and I was particularly moved by Sadeqa Johnson’s novel,Yellow Wife. Based on the real-life figure Mary Lumpkin, this powerful story about an enslaved concubine of the owner of a sla...
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez You Have a Match by Emma Lord The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood The Final Act...