Small Great Things
A Black nurse faces trial after a white supremacist couple bans her from their baby.
2,221-word summary · 10 min read
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Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
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An American Marriage
Newlywed Roy is wrongly imprisoned and Celestial loves Andre while waiting.
2,535-word summary · 11 min read
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Americanah
Ifemelu leaves Nigeria for America on a scholarship, blogs about race and hair, while Obinze endures undocumented London until they reunite years later in…
2,527-word summary · 11 min read
Such a Fun Age
A late-night grocery store clash pulls sitter Emira Tucker and her employer Alix Chamberlain into a tense fight over race, money, and good intentions.
2,339-word summary · 10 min read
Everything I Never Told You
In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race, school and duty that…
2,711-word summary · 12 min read
Yellowface
Struggling writer June steals her dead friend Athena's manuscript and publishes it as Juniper Song.
2,081-word summary · 9 min read
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
1,971-word summary · 9 min read
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951.
2,139-word summary · 10 min read
The Color Purple
Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice.
2,053-word summary · 9 min read
A Time to Kill
Lawyer Jake Brigance defends a father who killed his daughter's attackers.
2,064-word summary · 9 min read
The Hate U Give
Starr Carter sees her friend Khalil shot by police and must choose whether to speak up.
3,309-word summary · 15 min read