by Ross Gay (2019)
A celebratory, lyrical collection of essays written over the course of one year, exploring ordinary miracles, connection, and joy. Award-winning poet Ross Gay records the small daily delights of sharing seeds, loitering in public parks, hearing good music, and finding beauty in community and resilience.
Casey Parks
Part investigative journalism and part Southern queer memoir. Reporter Casey Parks unravels the haunting mystery of Roy Hudgins, a country singer and trans man from rural Louisiana whom her grandmother loved. In doing so, Parks reconciles her own fraught identity, deep religious upbringing, and complicated mother-daughter bond.
Ross Gay
A radiant essay collection exploring what joy actually is. Ross Gay reveals that true joy is not the absence of suffering, but the shared connection and solidarity we forge through mutual sorrow, caregiving, and community.
Tananarive Due
Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful beauty company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary heroine, and before his death in 1992, he embarked on the research and outline of a major novel based on her life. Now with The Black Rose, critically acclaimed writer Tananarive Due brings Haley's work to an inspiring completion. Blending documented history, vivid dialogue, and a sweeping fictionalized narrative, Tananarive Due paints a vivid portrait of this passionate and tenacious pioneer and the unforgettable era in which she lived.
Ross Gay
The eagerly anticipated companion to The Book of Delights, offering another year's worth of witty, effervescent, and deeply observant essayettes celebrating human kindness, soil, bird song, and the art of looking closely.