Best of
African-American-Literature

1994

Sisters & Lovers


Connie Briscoe - 1994
    Beverly is twenty-nine and single. She's a successful magazine editor who would love to be in love. The problem is, no man can meet her high standards. Charmaine longs to finish her degree, but meanwhile, she has to juggle a thankless job, a beautiful child, and an irresponsible husband she doesn't quite have the nerve to leave. Evelyn seems to have it made. She has a successful psychology practice and her husband is a partner in a prestigious law firm. But there's trouble in paradise, and Evelyn refuses to face the facts.Warm and bittersweet, believable and real, SISTERS & LOVERS is a novel of family and love, heartache and hope, and above all, the triumph of sisterhood.

Brothers and Sisters


Bebe Moore Campbell - 1994
    Living and working in Los Angeles, a young African-American woman finds herself torn between loyalty to her race and her commitment to a cause.

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader


David Levering Lewis - 1994
    This magnificent volume features a wealth of fiction and nonfiction works by 45 writers from that exuberant era.

I Live in Music: Poem


Ntozake Shange - 1994
    The poem is brought vividly to life through the paintings of one of America's premier artists, Romare Bearden.

Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary


Nelson Peery - 1994
    The author describes his childhood in rural Minnesota, his encounters as a teenage adventurer on freight trains, and his tour of duty as a soldier in the all-black 93rd Infantry Division.