One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father from the planet Krypton to save the Earth.' Unfortunately, the irony of this self-comparison to Superman was probably lost on many of his dedicated follo...more
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joes tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
Sent to live with her real family after her sister's gangrelated murder, Rain leaves the ghettos of Washington, DC, for a world she does not understand, in the first volume in a new series of four fulllength novels. Simultaneous.
Struggling to survive her dysfunctional family in order to protect its estate, promising drama school student Rain finds her world unraveling in the face of a tragedy from which she finds solace in the arms of a loving man, in the third novel in the Hudson series, which began with Rain and Lightning Strikes. Simultaneous.
When Rain Arnold's beloved adoptive mother dies, she is left shattered and completely alone, and flees in desperation to London, where she finds even darker and more devastating secrets about her biological family--secrets that some people will do anything to protect. Simultaneous.
There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T.J...more
Nella Larsen's Quicksand, first published in 1928, was the first novel to give voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helga Crane, the book's main protagonist, is frapped in the conflict between sexual fulfilment and middle-class respectability and a conflict of race and sex which even a religous conversion cannot resolve. Passing (1929) tac...more
Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by only Zora Neale Hurston’s. This Norton Critical Edition of Larsen’s electrifying 1929 novel includes Carla Kaplan’s detailed and thought-provoking introduction, thorough explanatory ann...more
When Barack Obama learns of the death of his African father, whom he hardly knew, he is compelled to trace his unusual family history. Obama, who became a nationally known figure in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, writes movingly about being raised in Hawaii by his white mother. He goes on to describe his years a...more
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