REDWOOD COURT by DéLana Dameron - TIME 'Here Are the 13 Books You Should Read in February'

TIME | January 31, 2024

The most exciting new books coming in February are easy to love and hard to put down.

Redwood Court, DéLana R. A. Dameron (Feb. 6)

Poet DéLana R. A. Dameron's tender debut novel, Redwood Court, follows a teenage girl in the 1990s. As the baby of her family, Mika Tabor has spent much of her life in the house on the titular cul-de-sac in an all-Black middle class neighborhood in Columbia, S.C. There, she grew up listening to her grandparents and parents’ stories of making it in the United States. Her family’s triumphs and struggles become her guide to navigating racism, sexism, and poverty as she comes of age at the start of a new millennium. Dameron is a native of Columbia—and her knowledge of the community shines through this portrait of a Southern Black family doing all they can to hold on to the American dream.

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