Sonny, who has escaped the streets of North Philadelphia for a corporate job in Minneapolis, returns home only to be held captive by history and broken dreams in a novel about the struggles of one African-American family

The award-winning author of Amistad returns with a beautifully textured novel about the relationship that develops between twelve-year-old Edward Massey and his curmudgeonly uncle over the course of a summer at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in the 1960s. Reprint.

Product Description: Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature...read more

Product Description: Set in the early 1960s, West of Rehoboth is the moving story of twelve-year-old Edward Massey. Each summer, to escape the heat of Philadelphia, Edward's family moves to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The "coloreds only" side of a pristine resort on Rehoboth Beach offers work for his mother and a sandy playground for his sister...read more

In this bitterly satirical novel of racial politics, unpublished African-American writer Ichabod 'Icky' Word kidnaps a white policeman, hoping to explain the dead body in his living room to the sad, lazy cop, while the Minneapolis SWAT team maneuvers for position outside his apartment. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

In this bitterly satirical novel of racial politics, unpublished African-American writer Ichabod 'Icky' Word kidnaps a white policeman, hoping to explain the dead body in his living room to the sad, lazy cop, while the Minneapolis SWAT team maneuvers for position outside his apartment.

While at a bookstore signing copies of his first novel, an African-American author recognizes the teenaged daughter whom he had abandoned years earlier, and the two struggle to bridge the gap between them. By the author of Losing Absalom. Reprint.

A fictionalized account of the 1839 mutiny aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad includes John Quincy Adams' role in defending its instigator before the Supreme Court

A fictionalized account of the 1839 mutiny aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad includes John Quincy Adams' role in defending its instigator before the Supreme Court