Like a Sister Middle Grades At home they are just

At home they are just sisters

It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist

These two generations of men are haunted by the Mother-Spirit who did not survive enslavement’s post-traumatic stress violence

these characters try to ground themselves—to grow where they find themselves planted—in a world in which the tension between what’s said and unsaid can bend the soul

” and the same can be said about this astonishing new collection

Like a Sister Middle Grades At home they are justWhen the body of reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her twenty fifth birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. A tragedy, certainly, but not a crime. Yet Columbia grad student Lenaprincipled, headstrong, and allergic to the spotlightknows that cant be the case. Despite the bitter truth that the two hadnt spoken in two years, they were half sisters. Lena knew