Description
Winner, 2022 Sarton Award for Historical Fiction; Winner (Bronze), 2022 Foreword INDIE Award for Multicultural Fiction
Cora James, a 35-year-old Black librarian in Harlem, dreams of being a writer. Torn between her secret passion and the duties of a working wife and mother in 1928, Cora strikes up correspondence with renowned poet Langston Hughes, who encourages her to pursue her dream. Duty frustrates Cora again, this time when she's called upon to fill in for her cousin Agnes while she recovers from a brutal beating by her husband Bud.
Working as a cook for a white woman, Cora discovers both time to write and an unlikely ally in Mrs. Eleanor Fitzgerald, who becomes friend, confidante, and patron, encouraging Cora to rise above what's commonly thought of as ?a woman's lot.? Yet, through a series of startling developments in her dealings with the white family, Cora's journey to becoming a writer takes her to the brink of losing everything, including her life.
Author: Kimberly Garrett Brown
Publisher: Inanna Publications & Education
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.43w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781771338516
ISBN10: 1771338512
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | African American & Black | Historical
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Kimberly Garrett Brown is the publisher and executive editor of Minerva Rising Press, an independent women's literary press. Her publications include The Rumpus, Women Writers, Women's Books, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, The Feminine Collective, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida. www.kimberlygarrettbrown.com
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