Every motherhood book we've recommended, in one place.
Two women in the 1950s: a Philadelphia teenager whose pregnancy derails her future, and a Howard student trying to marry into the Black elite. Their stories converge in a way you will see coming and still feel.
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Free-born in Reconstruction Brooklyn, Libertie is expected to become a doctor like her mother and does not want to. She marries and moves to Haiti instead. A novel about a daughter refusing the life she was handed.
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Toronto's core has been abandoned by the government and rebuilt by the people left in it. A young mother turns to her grandmother's Caribbean spirit work to survive a gang lord. Hopkinson's first novel and still a standout.
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