Overview :Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous re... Read More
Overview :A major Black writer joins the Library of America with a volume collecting four landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in Amer... Read More
Overview :A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip ... Read More
Overview :In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the ter... Read More
Overview :Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle ... Read More
Overview :In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspiration... Read More
Overview :Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power... Read More
Overview :Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the dea... Read More
Overview :This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in ... Read More