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Keenan Norris
Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, Keenan Norris’s first novel is a beautiful, gritty, coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley–a story of…
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Blends memoir, family history, and literary biography to portray Chicago as both a cradle of black intellect, art, and politics and a distillation of America’s deepest tragedies.
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"Taking place in the other California--the desert city of San Suerte--Lustre is about the luckless Lustre Little, a boy haunted by the violence of his hometown; ex-convict Sharone Bonilla, who…
Fiction. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Set in the Central California countryside and the Southern California desert, BY THE LEMON TREE’s old school stories chronicle the collision of…
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive...
He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world…
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Keenan Norris is simply one of the most talented young writers around. - Victor LaValle
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is…
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This collection of articles, essays, interviews, and poems defines urban literature-street lit-and provides valuable insights into a cultural force that is fast becoming as important to the American literary scene…
