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Conception, by Kalisha Buckhanon

“On the same day I began reading Kalisha Buckhanon’s ambitious new novel, Conception, I just happened to receive a newsletter from a major African American literary Web site featuring its latest bestseller list.

Song Yet Sung, by James McBride

“James McBride’s famous memoir, The Color of Water, was a personal examination of the author’s upbringing in a large, biracial family. Looking back at the life of his white, Jewish mother, McBride chronicled a good part of the last century, from the pre-World War II South, to New York through the turbulent ’60s, right up

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