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James Baldwin — The Fire Next Time

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1963 essay collection arguing that Black America's survival depends on white America's reckoning.

Jesmyn Ward — Sing, Unburied, Sing

Writers

2017 novel and second National Book Award winner — Mississippi Gulf Coast family on a road trip to a penitentiary.