Anonymous Mom Posts
by Jenifer Goldin
Fiction
The Dunwoody resident’s debut novel touches on narratives about complicated friendships, motherhood pressures, challenging marriages, and the path to self-acceptance. (Anchor Head Books)
Life and Other Love Songs
by Anissa Gray
Fiction
In Anissa Gray’s second novel, the senior editor at CNN writes about a father’s sudden disappearance—which exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the 20th century. (Berkley)
Decent People
by De’Shawn Charles Winslow
Fiction
De’Shawn Charles Winslow pens a sweeping novel of a North Carolina community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets that the killings revealed about a still-segregated city. (Bloomsbury)
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement
by Sarah RudeWalker
Nonfiction
Spelman professor Sarah RudeWalker’s investigation into the rhetorical impact of Black Arts Movement poetry by Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and others outlines the ways that BAM achieved its revolutionary goals. (UGA Press)
After a Thousand Tears
by Georgia Douglas Johnson, edited by Jimmy Worthy II
Poetry
While conducting archival research at Emory University’s Rose Library, Jimmy Worthy II discovered a collection of unpublished poetry from Atlanta-born Georgia Douglas Johnson—whom he considers the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance. (UGA Press)
The Woman with the Cure
by Lynn Cullen
Historical fiction
Lynn Cullen bases her sixth historical novel on the true story of Dr. Dorothy Horstmann, who stopped a polio pandemic that—in 1940s and ’50s America—regularly put cities on lockdown and left no life untouched. (Berkley)
This article appears in our March 2023 issue.