As seen on TikTok, Daniel Black’s Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have—“a complex, imaginative story of one unforgettable black family in mid-twentieth century Arkansas” (Atlanta Magazine).When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells ...

**Don't miss Daniel Black's next novel Isaac's Song coming January 2025*From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner*NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."—Jesmyn WardA Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Co...

***A Washington Post Best Book of January 2025**A Southern Review of Books Best Southern Book of January 2025**A Book Riot 13 of the Best New Queer Books Out in January 2025**A Book of the Month Pick for January 2025**From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker**From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner*"Black beautifully chronicles one man's heroic quest to find the source of his generational trauma, a cu...

"The Coming is powerful. And beautiful...This is a work to be proud of."--Charles Johnson, National Book Award winner for Middle PassageLyrical, poetic, and hypnotizing, The Coming tells the story of a people's capture and sojourn from their homeland across the Middle Passage--a traumatic trip that exposed the strength and resolve of the African spirit. Extreme conditions produce extraordinary insight, and only after being stripped of eve...

*A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January**An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick**A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January**A Southern Review of Books Best Book of January**A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023**An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for Janua...

Inspired by the murder of Emmett Till, this novel offers a powerful and profound exploration of black pain, suffering, and strength in the segregated South.In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, by laying a dime on the counter and turns to depart. Miss Cuthber...

A young Black man makes a reluctant return to his rural southern roots in this "thrilling literary debut . . . [a] haunting story of the ties that bind" (Michael Eric Dyson).With a doctorate in Black studies, twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the bus in Swamp Creek, Arkansas, the hometown he left as a teenager, vowing never to return. Yet fate has drawn him back to his rural origins as he seeks to understand himself and the black community that produc...

Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. At the same time, it draws upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought in order to highlight the limitations and inadequacies of such beliefs and suggest alternative perspectives. In so doing, it provid...

Energy is a fundamental enabler of economy, and revolutionary changes in energy cost and effectiveness, from animal and wood, to coal, whale oil, petroleum and nuclear technologies, have deeply shaped throughout history societal evolution worldwide. The nextwave of changes, as the world economic engine integrates renewable energy technologies such as solar technologies or biofuels, perhaps constitutes a greater challenge since predictably these technologies will be at least transiently les...

"Daniel Black's novel . . . dramatizes the trials and tribulations of a group of homeless outcasts who push beyond their failings to form a family." —Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Fat Time and Other StoriesIn Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black, nothing can convince Lazarus Love III to return to the lifestyle of affluence and social status he once knew. Longing for a freedom of the soul that the world of capitalism cannot provi...

Coping with grief, a young man returns to his small hometown and reconnects to his community, his spirituality, and himself.Twelve Gates to the City is the much-anticipated sequel to Daniel Black's acclaimed debut, They Tell Me of a Home. In this novel, Sister assumes the voice of the narrator, speaking from the spirit realm, telling her brother Tommy Lee (TL) things he could have never known about their family. She constructs the story as a serie...

When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, "You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain't what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon' be a boy. It'll be a little strange at first, but you'll get used to it, and this'll be over after while." From this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events. Meanwhile, the Peace family is forced to question everything they th...