The Keepers of the House
A Forever Kind of Love

A Lesson Before Dying

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

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  • "To see the Twin Poets is to laugh and cry and be thankful that young poets continue our great tradition"-Sonia Sanchez, author of Shake Loose My Skin

  • "In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."--The New Yorker

  • A brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.

  • Ortiz Cofer recalls events that led to Judith Ortiz Cofer's rise as a Latina writer who was celebratory of a Latinx identity