Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

Plum Bun: A Novel without a MoralFor readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman's journey toward self acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City. Originally published in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young Black woman of mixed heritage who uses the advantages of her lighter skin to escaper her own life. Beginning with a childhood in her Black middle class

his alcoholic and bighearted friend Bobby

and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters

" Grandma shows her how to make something beautiful

From the Hugo Award--winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands

Angela Davis

ISBN: 1250754062

but Onyeka and her friends have been alerted to one hidden in England

"—Chicago Tribune • "A provocative

Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak

Moves to rhythms long forgotten

he's delighted to see Iris

Publisher: West Virginia University Press