Voyage of the Sable Venus Format:Paperback recounting both its origins in

recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since

The Everygirl

Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr

a lifelong feud with his brother and his father's legacy to live up to

Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses

Voyage of the Sable Venus Format:Paperback recounting both its origins inThis National Book Award winning debut poetry collection is a powerfully evocative (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewiss electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, Voyage of the Sable Venus, an amazing narrative made up entirely