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The raucous, irreverent, and heart wrenching story of a transgender woman's re-entry into life on the outside after over twenty years in incarceration told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. Loosely inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses, this is a stylish, inventive tale of belonging, set in the newly gentrified Brooklyn, New York.

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown...

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After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - before it gentrifi...

From visual artist and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Delicious Foods, a startling, shape-shifting book of prose and images that draws on an unexpected pair of inspirations-the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters-to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature of consciousness.Early in 2017, on a plane from Cape Verde to Lisbon, James H...

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Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady compa...

Gelukkig waren ze, Darlene en Nat Hardison, met hun zoontje Eddie, hun buurtwinkel en de politieke bijeenkomsten bij hen thuis. Maar na de gewelddadige moord op Nat verliest Darlene zich in drugs en staat Eddie er hoegenaamd alleen voor. Dan krijgt Darlene een veelbelovende baan aangeboden op een boerderij die gerund blijkt te worden door een louche bedrijf - met rampzalige gevolgen. Aardse vruchten vertelt het verhaal van drie onvergetelijk...

Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are 19 years old, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. "God Says No" is his testimony -- the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetit...

Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen."God Says No"is his testimony--the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for ot...