“Here, finally, is the Jim we can only glimpse between hijinks and humiliations in Huck Finn—a man who’s clever and tender, romantic and tragic. And there’s just no escaping his wife’s voice. I read some chapters without blinking.“—Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor
“A wonderful first-person narrative…both a love story and a chronicle of a brutal time in American history.”—Chicago Tribune
Read MoreSili Recio has been calling herself a writer since she won a trophy in a poetry contest in the sixth grade. She is an Afro-Dominican storyteller, disruptor, and Mami. Sili lives in Florida with her daughter, the Frog Princess.
Read MoreCheryl Reid grew up in Decatur, Alabama. She studied art and writing at Agnes Scott College and earned an MFA from Georgia State University. She lives with her husband and three children in Decatur, Georgia.
Read MoreMONICA RODDEN is a Virginia Tech graduate who lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two disconcertingly large guinea pigs. Monsters Among Us, which was inspired by Wuthering Heights, is her first book. She plans to continue writing young adult adaptations of classic novels, but only the really dark, depressing ones—which is pretty much all of them.
Read More“The first lines…promise a mélange of literary forms and edgy melancholy characters…part postmodern parable, part contemporary urban portrait…it is fully formed, like an existential poem.”—Black Issues Book Review, QBR Summer 2004 reading selection
“[A]n elegantly gloomy addition to Rux’s artistic achievements.”—Publishers Weekly
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