https://pithybooks.com/tags/race/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “race”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/americanah/ https://pithybooks.com/books/americanah/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ifemelu leaves Nigeria for America on a scholarship, blogs about race and hair, while Obinze endures undocumented London until they reunite years later in Lagos to face the past. https://pithybooks.com/books/an-american-marriage/ https://pithybooks.com/books/an-american-marriage/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Newlywed Roy is wrongly imprisoned and Celestial loves Andre while waiting. https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones. https://pithybooks.com/books/small-great-things/ https://pithybooks.com/books/small-great-things/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Black nurse faces trial after a white supremacist couple bans her from their baby. https://pithybooks.com/books/everything-i-never-told-you/ https://pithybooks.com/books/everything-i-never-told-you/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 shaped her. https://pithybooks.com/books/such-a-fun-age/ https://pithybooks.com/books/such-a-fun-age/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-time-to-kill/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-time-to-kill/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lawyer Jake Brigance defends a father who killed his daughter's attackers. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-color-purple/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-color-purple/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-vanishing-half/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-vanishing-half/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white. https://pithybooks.com/books/yellowface/ https://pithybooks.com/books/yellowface/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Struggling writer June steals her dead friend Athena's manuscript and publishes it as Juniper Song. https://pithybooks.com/books/little-fires-everywhere/ https://pithybooks.com/books/little-fires-everywhere/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In planned Shaker Heights, Elena Richardson rents to drifting artist Mia Warren, and a custody fight over baby May Ling splits friends and teens. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hate-u-give/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hate-u-give/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Starr Carter sees her friend Khalil shot by police and must choose whether to speak up.