The New Naturals

The New NaturalsCritically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia. An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the loss of her newborn child, this hill becomes more than a safe haven it becomes a place to start over. She convinces her

February 01 2004

The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot

With profound tenderness and sensitivity

or to live for it

her family begins a desperate search to find her

and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government

all the animals appear together peering out from behind two gatefolds

and emotion

The Color of Compromise:

" It's about wrestling with histories

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South