Nobody's MagicIn this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple, and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. Suzette, a pampered 20 yearold, has been sheltered from the outside world since a dangerous childhood encounter. Now, a budding romance with a sweet mechanic allows Suzette to seek

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD STARR CARTER moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends

or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her

Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried

page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut

do something bad

the Great Migration

he killed himself

is love worth the risk

she's able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife

the absent father they never really knew

he doesn't know everything

Alex Haley worked with Malcolm X for nearly two years