Susan Straight's most powerful novel yet is framed by two race riots: the little known Tulsa riot...

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the author of A Million Nightingales ('a writer of ex...

From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisi...

'To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who ca...

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 1992.

A valuable social history and a personal narrative, this work reads like a love song to America a...

A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America-a 'heartrending, take-no-...

'In August in Rio Seco, California, the ground is too hard to bury a body. But Glorette Picard is...

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 1994.

Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her...

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Straight writes with tenderness and insight about the lives of people from the Westside, a black ...

Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her...

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'A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an es...

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

'In August 2020, a group of nurses are working in the ICU at a hospital in San Bernardino at the ...

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