#books by black women
Far from My Father (2010 Book by Véronique Tadjo)
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4684
Here comes the sun (2016 book by Nicole Dennis Benn)
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/say-nicole-dennis-benn-comes-sun/
Me Too, I Say, Me Too: Nicole Dennis-Benn on “Here Comes the Sun”
‘Here Comes The Sun’ Shows A Complex, Heartbreakingly Real Jamaica
An Image in a Mirror (2018/9 book by Ijangolet S. Ogwang)
https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/books/an-image-in-a-mirror/
An Image in a Mirror – DUBLIN Literary Award
Fiction’s got a powerful new female voice in Ijangolet S Ogwang
Diana Evans (Author of Ordinary People-2018 and 26a-2006)
Harriet’s daughter (1988 book by M. NourbeSe Philip)
Harriet’s Daughter was published in 1988 by Heinemann (England) and The Women’s Press (Canada). This book was one of two runners up in the 1989 Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature; it was also first runner up in the Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature, City of Toronto Book Award Finalist 1995 and **STAR CHOICE** of Educational Impact (Nov ’89).Harriet’s Daughter has been critically acclaimed and much reviewed as ” a lively and insightful adolescent novel…about friendship, coming of age and identity”, a story “told with warmth, humour and skill.” that is “riveting, funny, and technically accomplished.” The dialogue has been said to come “right off the page –you’ll find yourself reading it aloud”. It makes “the fact of being black a very positive enhancing experience”, and is a book “about friendship, loyalty and love that everyone from nine to ninety can enjoy.”
taken from: https://www.nourbese.com/novels/harriets-daughter-2/
The Brown Sisters series (books by Talia Hibbert, 2019-2021)
Talia Hibbert Thinks We All Deserve a Chance to Find Love
10 Reasons why you should read The Brown Sisters books by Talia Hibbert
The Fat Lady Sings (book by Jacqueline Roy, 2000)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320/320878/the-fat-lady-sings/9780241482698.html
It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and eternally on the brink of bursting into song.
After several months of uninterrupted routine, she is joined by another young black woman - Merle - who is full of silences and fear.
Unable to confide in their doctors, they agree to journal their pasts. Whispered into tape recorders and scrawled ferociously at night, the remarkable stories of their lives are revealed.
In this tender, deeply-moving depiction of mental health, Roy creates a striking portrait of two women finding strength in their shared vulnerability, as they navigate a system that fails to protect them. Life-affirming and fearlessly hopeful, this is an unforgettable story
On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe
On Black Sisters Street tells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their African homeland for the riches of Europe—and who are thrown together by bad luck and big dreams into a sisterhood that will change their lives.
Each night, Sisi, Ama, Efe, and Joyce stand in the windows of Antwerp’s red-light district, promising to make men’s desires come true—if only for half an hour. Pledged to the fierce Madam and a mysterious pimp named Dele, the girls share an apartment but little else—they keep their heads down, knowing that one step out of line could cost them a week’s wages. They open their bodies to strangers but their hearts to no one, each focused on earning enough to get herself free, to send money home or save up for her own future.
Then, suddenly, a murder shatters the still surface of their lives. Drawn together by tragedy and the loss of one of their own, the women realize that they must choose between their secrets and their safety. As they begin to tell their stories, their confessions reveal the face in Efe’s hidden photograph, Ama’s lifelong search for a father, Joyce’s true name, and Sisi’s deepest secrets—-and all their tales of fear, displacement, and love, concluding in a chance meeting with a handsome, sinister stranger.
from: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/181696/on-black-sisters-street-by-chika-unigwe/
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