Becoming, details her journey from Chicago’s South Side to the White House. Audre Lorde’s seminal 1984 collection, Sister Outsider, is a generations’ worth of realism. The Color Purple, Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize– winning novel, touched readers and lifted up a sisterhood.
In James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, the narrative centers on a couple expecting a child as they’re torn apart.
In 1999 Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever made readers fall in love with a teen dealing with her drug-dealing father.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah features a woman who left Nigeria for America only to return to her true love; the 2013 novel is being turned into an HBO Max miniseries.
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