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Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.

'A powerful and wise novel . . . read this now' – Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me Before the little girl became a Missing Child, she was Jouvay Marcelin from Flatbush . . . 1996. Serenity Marcelin is still reeling from the recent loss of her beloved mother when she agrees to take...

From a powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning multigenerational epic, spanning from 1920s Haiti to 1990s New York, centered on the disappearance of a little girl during Brooklyn's J'ouvert celebrations. “Beautiful and surreal.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone “With...