Tayari Jones

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career....

The classic urban tale of a young Black woman's struggle to raise her son alone amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of 1940s Harlem....

Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets....

Identical twins Amelia and Camelia Hall were born with the same face, and that’s about it. But the bond between the sisters is deep and unshakable....

Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones delivers a story based on the 1979-1980 Atlanta child murders....

Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt....

Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, Silver Sparrow revolves around James Witherspoon's two families - the public one and the secret one....

Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays....

Las gemelas idénticas, Amelia y Camelia Hall, nacieron con la misma cara, pero eso es todo: cuando las chicas llegan a la edad escolar, sus nombres similares ya no pueden contenerlas....

"Mon père, James Witherspoon, est bigame." C'est par cette confession percutante que Dana Lynn Yarboro débute le récit d'une enfance pas comme...

Celestial et Roy viennent de se marier. Elle est à l'aube d'une carrière artistique prometteuse, il s'apprête à lancer son business...

Come sit on the veranda and pour yourself a glass of sweet tea, fortified with a slug of bourbon. Put your feet up and enjoy these stories set in Atlanta, a city sewn from the ashes, where everything that grows is both fertilized and corrupted by the past....