As the first African American legacy graduate of The Taft School, James is the poster child of diversity—but on her journey as an admissions officer specializing in recruiting diverse students, she begins to feel like she's selling a lie.

What maintains a friendship? Shared history and traumas? Mutual respect? This book explores what binds and breaks the lifelong friendship of Zahra and Maryam—from their teens years (and one particularly traumatic night) to their lives now.

After their mother's death, two siblings return to their family home to find a curious inheritance—a black cake and a voice recording. Through the recording, they learn things about their mother, challenging what they thought they knew.

A writer whose work focuses on the intersection of race, trauma, and healing, Lewis-Giggetts offers us stories to show how Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, but a tool for resilience.

Farrah is one of two Black girls living in a gated community. The other is her best friend, Cherish. Faced with foreclosure, Farrah stays with Cherish and her white adoptive family—and begins to pick up on something strange.

A historical science fiction set in 19th-century Mexico. Carlota's scientist-father is bent on pushing the boundaries of creation in their isolated home—where the arrival of his patron's son sets off a volatile chain reaction.

Kidnapped then smuggled from China to America, Daiyu is forced to reinvent herself to survive the traumatic chain of events that befall her. But surviving isn't enough; what she wants most is to live.

Beatriz is a new bride moving into her husband's estate and soon finds herself deeply unsettled by the house. Now, she must band together with her only ally, a local priest, to fight off what lurks within those walls.

Vincent is in Paris to escape home—where her husband just published a book exposing things about their marriage and his past. Her days now involve strolling the streets of France and enjoying the company of a charming, younger man...

The second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should “live by rage and joy and turpentine.”

A no-holds-barred satire about the international cost of the American Dream, this novel is a compulsively readable, darkly comedic, yet unexpectedly touching story of one woman’s search for meaning and connection.

Caught between tradition and modernity, adolescence and adulthood, four Nigerian girls in boarding school grapple with the possibilities—and limitations—of their lives and the uncertainties of the world within and outside of Nigeria.

Things are changing in the summer of 1999. A young girl living in a soon-to-be-torn-down Chicago high-rise needs to make hard decisions about who to keep in her life and who she wants to become.

Yasmin and Joe come from vastly different families, backgrounds, and cultures. Love Marriage explores the gulf in their family dynamics, class, and sexual experiences as two people try to understand one another during their engagement.

A gripping novel on three generations of Black women. As Joan paints portraits of the community in Memphis, she begins to uncover stories of her family's legacy, connecting her artistic practice to a long matrilineal tradition.

About young boy with an African name who has trouble fitting in at school, this story extends out to discuss the role of race, masculinity, education, and family in the lives of Black boys in the US today. A memoir like few others.

It's the day Hadi is flying back to America and reuniting with his pregnant new wife, Sama—when a travel ban rips them apart.

Angela is killing it as the perfect immigrant daughter—she's in medical school, and her boyfriend is parent-approved—until her life starts to come apart. And just when things couldn't get more complicated, Ricky enters the picture.

For years, Vivian has been training her three daughters as the singers that make up The Salvations. Vivian's dream of stardom is finally in grasp, but her daughters have ambitions of their own, which are at odds with their mother's.

1990s Nigeria. Patience, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, is desperate to know why her mother was banished from their compound years ago. A reunion with her cousin gives her answers she's looking for—but he has his own motives.

Written by a law professor and comparative race relations expert, this book will challenge your understanding of racism and demonstrate that it’s possible for a marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory.

After a fatal accident, Tam Kwan is left with a dead husband, the custody of a niece she barely knows, and the news that she's been approved to adopt her baby from China. Now, Tam needs to find a way to pick up the pieces of her life.

A forensic photographer, Rita, is caught in the crosshairs of one of the most dangerous cartels. She owes her professional success to one secret: she can see ghosts of the victims—which just might trip her up this time around.

To Paradise explores three centuries, three characters, three versions of America, and the elusive promise of paradise and utopia. It raises the question: What unites us? What qualities make us human?

Covering the span of Violeta's long life, this story is told through a letter to someone she loves—love found and lost, pain caused and suffered, passions developed and outgrown, and the many changes she witnessed throughout her life.

When someone new joins the group of three Anglo-Nigerian best friends, things start to get out of control. Is this new friend manipulating everyone on purpose, or is she just misunderstood?

Wash Day Diaries is a collection of short vignettes about four best friends—Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie—as they navigate daily life in the Bronx, do their hair routines, and share moments with each other.

What My Bones Know is the incredible true story of Stephanie Foo, who endured physical, mental, and psychological abuse in her childhood, and her reckoning with her diagnosis with complex PTSD in adulthood.

Historical fiction with a little magical realism, this multigenerational story traces the lives of one Indigenous Chicano family in the American West and focuses on Luz, a tea leaf reader and laundress trying to preserve her family stories.

Yinka believes love will find her when she’s ready and ignores her mother’s pleas to find a husband. When her cousin announces her engagement, however, Yinka decides she's ready to begin Operation Find-A-Date for Rachel’s Wedding.