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Alice Walker • The Color Purple
In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“And what made you two connect?” Meredith Blake is smiling and polite but shrewd: she has a grandmother’s face with a lawyer’s eyes, the way Lady Macbeth might have looked,
Dann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel

She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Helene Wright was an impressive woman, at least in Medallion she was. Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people’s manners. A woman who won all social battles with presence and a conviction of the legitimacy of her authority.
Toni Morrison • Sula
Aphra Behn’s 1678 novel Oroonoko.