Jesmyn Ward is the author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award for fiction, as well as Salvage the Bones and Men We Reaped. In addition, she edited The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Here Ward recommends new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from African American writers.
I count myself lucky to be alive and writing: It is an honor to join the chorus of African American writers at work.
Each writer on this list adds essential words to the conversation we're having about what it means to live and love and find joy and suffer grief in America right now. Every book we write broadens everyone's ideas about who we can be and what we are capable of. Here you will find worlds and people who will surprise you, anger you, bring you deep melancholy and sublime happiness. Each of the writers will subvert your ideas about humanity, America, and yourself.
You'll have to preorder a few of these, but they are worth the wait. Read and rejoice.
Ward's Fiction Recommendations:
Ward's Poetry Recommendations:
Ward's Nonfiction Recommendations:
Be sure to add Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing to your Want to Read shelf.
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