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Sara Levine – The Hitch

Sara Levine The Hitch review and information of the content of the novel by the American writer. Roxane Gay Books will publish the new Sara Levine novel, on January 13, 2026. 

Sara Levine The Hitch reviews

  • “I was slobberingly, tail-waggingly delighted to read The Hitch—which is one of the most wildly comedic and unhinged novels I have ever encountered, while at the same time also being deeply relatable and strangely emotionally accurate. Not only was I laughing on almost every page, I was reading parts of it aloud to anybody around me who would listen. Give this book a trophy. It’s perfect.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author)
  • “A hilarious, madcap novel about our human obsession with getting life “right,” and how the best laid plans can go astray, especially when the dark haunted soul of a corgi gets involved. This is the book I’ll recommend to people as a test of their sense of humor: if they laugh at the corgi, the yogurt crisis, the hero who cannot recognize the obvious even when it’s chewing on her pant leg, then I’ll know we’re destined to be friends.” (Nathan Hill, author)
  • “Sara Levine’s long-awaited follow-up to cult classic Treasure Island!!! does not disappoint: we find in The Hitch a plot as dark and concise as those of Hilary Mantel’s early novels, but propelled by Levine’s signature prose, sharp and hilarious. In this pitch-perfect comedy of manners, Rose, equal parts Thomas Bernhard, Elaine Benes, and health guru, might be too well-informed to make an informed decision, but seeing her try is a true delight. A relentlessly funny novel about loneliness.” (Camille Bordas)

Sara Levine The Hitch

The Hitch

  • Author: Sara Levine (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
  • To be released: 13 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the novel by Sara Levine

From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.

Rose Cutler defines herself by her exacting standards. As an anti-racist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, she is convinced she knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old nephew Nathan. When Rose offers to look after him while his parents visit Mexico for a week, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly agree, provided she understands the rules—routine, bedtime, homework—and doesn’t overstep. But when Rose’s Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park, Nathan starts acting strangely: barking, overeating, talking to himself. Rose mistakes this behavior as repressed grief over the corgi’s death, but Nathan insists he isn’t grieving, and the dog isn’t dead. Her soul leaped into his body, and now she’s living inside him. Now Rose must banish the corgi from her nephew before the week ends and his parents return to collect their child.

With the ferocious absurdity of Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch and the dark, brazen humor of Melissa Broder’s Death Valley, The Hitch is a tantalizingly bizarre novel about loneliness, bad boundaries, and the ill-fated strategy of micromanaging everything and everyone around you.

Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays, stories, and aphorisms have appeared in various magazines including The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, Sonora Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Shannon Bowring – In a Distant Valley

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley review, recensie en informatie roman over Maine in de winter van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de roman van Shannon Bowring, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley review en recensie

  • “Bowring brilliantly evokes people’s inner lives through small, illuminating moments.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Bowring concludes her heartwarming trilogy chronicling small-town life in northern Maine on a strong note…[her] compassionate, unflinchingly detailed portrayals of her characters’ inner lives provide depth and nuance. A vibrant, hope-filled story of the redemptive possibilities of second chances.” (Booklist)

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley

In a Distant Valley

  • Auteur: Shannon Bowring (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, Maine roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over Maine in de winter van Shannon Bowring

Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, In a Distant Valley sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in snowy Maine.

For a while, Rose Douglas believed life had given her a break. She was enjoying a steady job at the local clinic in Dalton; her two young boys, Adam and Brandon, were doing well in school; and their little family had found an easy friendship with widower Nate Theroux and his daughter, Sophie. The possibility of something deeper even hung between her and Nate—until the day Tommy Merchant, her ex and the father of her sons, showed up without warning on her doorstep. While Rose knows all too well his erratic and abusive nature, he swears he’s clean, and ready to turn over a new leaf.

Tommy isn’t the only one who’s found his way back to the town that defined him. Lost after a disastrous stint living down south with her father, Angela Muse has returned home to Dalton. There she runs into Greg Fortin, the friend who once saved her life when they were children and finally starts to believe there may be someone who understands her in a world that offers more questions than answers.

But secrets are the lifeblood of a small town, and everyone in Dalton soon finds themselves part of a chain of events hurtling towards outcomes beyond their control, where more than one future will be decided. Brimming with compassion and heart.

Shannon Bowring has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Best of the Net, and was recently selected in Best Small Fictions. She holds an MFA from University of Southern Maine Stonecoast and currently resides in Maine. The Road to Dalton was her first novel, followed by When the Forest Meets the River. In a Distant Valley is her third novel.

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Portia Elan – Homebound

Portia Elan Homebound review and information of the content of the coming-of-age novel by the American author. Chatto & Windus will publish the Portia Elan debut novel, on May 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Portia Elan Homebound reviews

  • “A joy – at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human…. it kept me up all night!” (Madeline Miller)
  • “Homebound is the most original and arresting novel I’ve read in a very long time. Elan has created a century-spanning epic that’s also an utterly intimate story of love, loss, and found family. What a joy; what a marvel.” (Anna North)

Portia Elan Homebound

Homebound

  • Author: Portia Elan (United States)
  • Book type: American debut novel, coming-of-age novel
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus
  • To be released: 7 May 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £16.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the novel by Portia Elan

Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game. And the many paths that can lead us home.

  • 1983: a grieving teenager can’t wait to leave home.
  • 2083: a scientist makes a radical discovery about the human spirit.
  • 2586: a pirate captain navigates the perils of a flooded world.
  • Meanwhile: an astronaut is on a rescue mission in deep space.

It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. In the meantime, she has work to do: her uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.

What Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across time, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew and bring them home.

Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.

Portia Elan studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria before returning to California, where she has worked as a waitress, bookseller, teacher and public librarian. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and an abundance of cats. Homebound is her first novel.

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Laura Dave – The First Time I Saw Him

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him review and information of the content of the new crime novel by the American author. Scribner will publish the new Laura Dave novel, on january 6, 2026. It’s the sequel of the novel The Last Thing He Told Me. 

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him review

  • “Equally action-packed and deeply felt, this sequel is every bit as incredible as The Last Thing He Told Me. Clear your schedule because once you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down. I loved everything about it.” (Mary Kubica)
  • “An essential sequel that ties up loose threads while providing a thrilling ride across continents.” (Kirkus)

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him

The First Time I Saw Him

  • Author: Laura Dave (United States)
  • Book type: American crime novel
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Released: 6 January 2026
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the crime novel by Laura Dave

Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me.

How far would you go for a second chance?

Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them.

But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.

Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance. A gripping, rich, and deeply moving novel about the power of forgiveness.

Laura Dave was born 18 July 1977 in New York City. She is the author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and The Night We Lost him. Her novels have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into thirty-eight languages. The Last Thing He Told Me was the Goodreads Mystery & Thriller of the Year for 2021 and is now a series on Apple TV+, cocreated by Laura. She resides in Santa Monica, California.

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Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters

Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters romans en boeken. Welke bekende Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfster zijn er? Wat zijn de beste romans en andere boeken die zij geschreven hebben? Welke nieuwe romans en andere boeken zijn er recent verschenen?

Afro-Amerikaanse auteurs nieuwe romans en boeken in 2025

Onderstaande boeken zijn ingedeeld op datum van verschijnen. Bovenaan staan de nieuwste boeken.

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel recensieDe hemel & aarde winkel

  • Auteur: James McBride (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Kees Mollema
  • Uitgever: Meridiaan Uitgevers
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 460 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: De Hemel & Aarde Winkel begint in 1972, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, als bij graafwerkzaamheden een skelet en wat voorwerpen, zoals een mezoeze, worden aangetroffen – wat de politie ertoe brengt de enige joodse inwoner van het stadje te ondervragen. Het onderzoek wordt echter bemoeilijkt wanneer de plaats delict wordt weggevaagd door orkaan Agnes. McBride keert vervolgens terug naar het Pottstown van de jaren twintig en dertig en beschrijft het leven van de inwoners van de overwegend arme zwarte en joodse wijk Chicken Hill…lees verder >

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories reviewThe Gilda Stories

  • Auteur: Jewelle Gomez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: futuristische roman uit 1991, slavernijroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang; 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Winnaar Lambda Award
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men’s clothing and seem to know others’ innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to ‘share the blood’ and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women’s suffrage groups…lees verder >

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice reviewThis Is Not a Small Voice

Selected Poems

  • Auteur: Sonia Sanchez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez’s poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world, including Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Whether it’s her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez’s luminous verse thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of life’s agony and ecstasy…lees verder >

Rob Franklin Great Black Hope reviewGreat Black Hope

  • Auteur: Rob Franklin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: It’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle, the daughter of a famous soul singer, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle—as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America…lees verder >

Afro-Amerikaanse auteurs nieuwe romans en boeken in 2024

Onderstaande boeken zijn ingedeeld op datum van verschijnen. Bovenaan staan de nieuwste boeken.

My Pisces Heart

A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents

  • Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart review en recensieAuteur: Jennifer Neal (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Capapult
  • Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / eboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Inhoud boek: Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now…lees verder >

Sky Full of Elephants

  • Auteur: Cebo Campbell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie en reviewUitgever: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family…lees verder >

Een van ons

  • Auteur: Richard Wright (Verenigde Staten)
  • Richard Wright Een van ons recensieSoort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Native Son (1940)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Paul Bruijn, Molly van Gelder
  • Uitgever: Van Oorschot
  • Verschijnt: 23 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 488 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 29.50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: In de iconische roman Een van ons (Native Son) toont Richard Wright wat racisme met een mens doet, en hoezeer het een maatschappij ontwricht. De twintigjarige Afro-Amerikaanse Bigger Thomas, afkomstig uit een achterstandswijk in Chicago, pleegt een moord op een wit meisje uit een gegoed milieu, en slaat op de vlucht…lees verder >

Een zoon van Amerika

  • Auteur: James Baldwin (Verenigde Staten)
  • James Baldwin Een zoon van Amerika recensieSoort boek: essays, verhalen
  • Origineel: Notes of a Native Son (1955)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Eefje Bosch, Manik Sarkar
  • Uitgever: De Geus
  • Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: James Baldwins non-fictiedebuut verscheen in 1955, toen hij dertig was en vestigde zijn naam als onontkoombaar denker. De tien cultuurkritische en autobiografische es­says zijn geschreven in de jaren veertig en vijftig en tonen een land waarin de maatschappelijke verhoudingen voorzichtig beginnen te schuiven…lees verder >

Giovanni’s kamer

  • Auteur: James Baldwin (Verenigde Staten)
  • James Baldwin Giovanni’s kamer recensieSoort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Giovanni’s Room (1956)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Eefje Bosch, Manik Sarkar
  • Uitgever: De Geus
  • Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 21,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: In het Parijs van de jaren vijftig valt de jonge Amerikaan David voor de Italiaanse barman Giovanni. Als Davids verloofde Hella terugkeert van een reis raakt hij verscheurd tussen zijn verlangens en de conventionele moraal. Ondertussen neemt het leven van Giovanni een vreselijke wending…lees verder >

Helemaal prima

  • Auteur: Cecilia Rabess (Verenigde Staten)
  • Cecilia Rabess Helemaal primaSoort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Everything’s Fine (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Adiëlle Westercappel
  • Uitgever: Atlas Contact
  • Verschijnt: 28 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Jess en Josh zijn in ongeveer alle opzichten elkaars tegenpolen. Zij is Zwart, progressief, van bescheiden komaf, en gewend om zichzelf voortdurend te moeten bewijzen in een witte (mannen)wereld. Hij is wit, conservatief, en zeer bevoorrecht. Wanneer ze collega’s worden bij een gerenommeerde New Yorkse investeringsbank, duurt het niet lang voordat hun aanvankelijk vijandige verhouding omslaat in vriendschap – en uiteindelijk in een onwaarschijnlijke, allesverslindende liefdesaffaire…lees verder >

James

  • Auteur: Percival Everett (Verenigde Staten)
  • Percival Everett JamesSoort boek: Amerikaanse slavernijroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Doubleday
  • Verschijnt: 19 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Inhoud roman: When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond…lees verder >

Waar we gaan is nacht

  • Auteur: Tracey Rose Peyton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Tracey Rose Peyton Waar we gaan is nacht recensieSoort boek: historische roman, slavernijroman
  • Origineel: Night Wherever We Go (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Linda Broeder
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt:  22 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 12,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Texas, 1852. Zes vrouwen wonen en werken op een noodlijdende plantage. ’s Nachts glippen ze uit hun hut en komen met andere tot slaaf gemaakten in het bos bij elkaar. Hun eigenaren – die zij de Lucy’s noemen, naar Lucifer – hebben namelijk plannen om de plantage winstgevend te maken, die verregaande gevolgen voor hen zullen hebben…lees verder >

De zaaier

  • Auteur: Octavia E. Butler (Verenigde Staten)
  • Octavia Butler De zaaier roman uit 1993 recensieSoort boek: dystopische roman
  • Origineel: Parable of the Sower (1993)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Reshma Jagernath, Ine Willems
  • Uitgever: Signatuur
  • Verschijnt: 13 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 14,99 / € 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Wanneer wereldwijde klimaatverandering en economische crises in 2024 tot sociale chaos leiden, wordt Californië een plek vol gevaar: van ernstig watertekort tot massa’s drugsverslaafde maniakken die alles zullen doen om nog een dag te overleven. De vijftienjarige Lauren Olamina woont met haar vader, in een afgeschermde community, beschermd tegen de anarchie buiten de muren. Lauren lijdt aan hyperempathie, een slopende gevoeligheid voor de emoties van anderen. Maar als de community onveilig wordt, moet Lauren vluchten…lees verder >

Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters romans en boeken

Op deze pagina is een overzicht te vinden van Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters. Bovendien is er aandacht voor hun beste romans en andere boeken. Ook is er een overzicht van nieuwe romans en andere boeken opgenomen.

Maya Angelou

geboren 4 april 1928
overleden 28 mei 2014
memoireschrijfster, dichteres, essayiste en activiste

James Baldwin Als Beale Street kon praten Beste Boeken uit 1974James Baldwin

geboren 2 augustus 1924
overleden 1 december 1987
romanschrijver, essayist en burgerrechtenactivist

Brit Bennett De vervlogen helft RecensieBrit Bennett

geboren 1990
romanschrijfster

Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Talents Roman uit 1998Octavia E. Buter

geboren op 22 juni 1947
geboorteplaats: Pasadena, Californië
overleden op 25 februari 2006
sterfplaats: Seattle, Washington
leeftijd: 58 jaar

Ralph Ellison

geboren 1 maart 1914
overleden 16 april 1994
romanschrijver

Paul Laurence Dunbar

geboren 27 juni 1872 –
overleden 9 februari 1906)
roman- en toneelschrijver, dichter

Alex Haley

genoren 11 augustus 1921
overleden 10 februari 1992
romanschrijver

Chester Himes Boeken en InformatieChester Himes

geboren 29 juli 1909
overleden 12 november 1984)
misdaadromanschrijver

Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter first edition form 1930Langston Hughes

geboren op 1 februari 1901
geboorteplaats: Joplin, Missouri
overleden op 22 mei 1967
sterfplaats: New York City

Tayari Jones

geboren 30 november 1970
roman- en verhalenschrijfster

William M. Kelley Uit de maat RecensieWilliam Melvin Kelley

geboren 1 november 1937
overleden 1 februari 2017)
roman- en verhalenschrijver

Nella Larsen Drijfzand Schutkleur RecensieNella Larsen

geboren 13 april 1891
overleden 30 maart 1964)
romanschrijfster

Kiese Laymon Long Division RecensieKiese Laymon

geboren op 15 augustus 1974
geboorteplaats: Jackson, Mississippi
romanschrijver

Audre Lorde Sister Outsider review en recensieAudre Lorde

schrijfster, professor en activiste
geboren op 17 november 1934
geboorteplaats: New York City
overleden op 17 november 1992
sterplaats: Saint Croix, Amerikaanse Maagdeneilanden
leeftijd: 58 jaar
doodsoorzaak: kanker

Bernice L. McFadden Sugar review en recensieBernice L. McFadden

geboren op 26 september 1965
geboorteplaats: Brooklyn, New York

Claude McKay Home to Harlem review en recensieClaude McKay

geboren op 15 september 1890
geboorteplaats: Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
overleden op 22 mei 1948
sterfplaats: Chicago, Illinois
leeftijd: 57 jaar
doodsoorzaak: hartaanval

  • Home to Harlem (roman, 1928)
    Waardering: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Toni Morrison

Afro-Amerikaanse romanschrijfster
Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur 1993
geboren op 18 februari 1931
geboorteplaats: Lorain, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
overleden op 5 augustus 2019
sterfplaats: New York City
leeftijd: 88 jaar

  • Beloved (roman, 1987)
    waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
    Nederlandse vertaling: Beminde
Walter Mosley

geboren 12 januari 1952
thrillerschrijver

Ann Petry De straat RecensieAnn Petry

geboren 12 oktober 1908
overleden 28 april 1997)
roman- en verhalenschrijfster

  • The Narrows (roman, 1953)
  • The Street (roman, 1946)
    Waardering: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
    Nederlands: De straat (2020)
Fran Ross Oreo Afro-Amerikaanse roman uit 1974 RecensieFran Ross

geboren 25 juni 1935 in Philadelphia
overleden 17 september 1985 in New York
leeftijd: 50 jaar
romanschrijfster

  • Oreo (roman, 1974)
Wallace Thurman

geboren op 16 augustus 1902
geboorteplaats: Salt Lake City, Utah
overleden op 22 december 1934
sterfplaats: New York City
leeftijd: 32 jaar
doodsoorzaak: tuberculose

Alice Walker De kleur paars RecensieAlice Walker

geboren 9 februari 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia
roman- en verhalenschrijfster, essayiste

Colson Whitehead De ondergrondse spoorweg Recensie RomanColson Whitehead

geboren 6 november 1969
romanschrijver

John Edgar Wideman

geboren 14 juni 1941 in Washington, D.C.
roman- en verhalenschrijver

Richard Wright Black Boy Afro-Amerikaanse memoires uit 1945Richard Wright

geboren 4 september 1908 in Rxie, Mississippi
overleden 28 november 1960 in Parijs, Frankrijk
romanschrijver

John Edgar Wideman

geboren 14 juni 1941
roman- en verhalenschrijver

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Anika Jade Levy – Flat Earth

Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth review and information of the content of the first novel by the American author. Catapult will publish the new Anika Jade Levy novel, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth review

  • “Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth exudes ennui and sadness, each chapter prefaced by a mordant precis of bizarre fads and news stories to set against its heroine’s apathy and dysfunction . . . There is a glum kind of humour woven into the despair, and the hopelessness is rendered strangely hypnotic in crisp, pitiless prose.” (Suzi Feay, Financial Times)
  • “Reading Flat Earth feels like opening your best friend’s diary and finding out what she really thinks about you, and then falling even more in love with her—realizing that love is something darker and more consuming than you’d let yourself believe. Flat Earth is fierce, hungry, hurting, on fire. The prose in this book makes other books feel like dull knives. This is a book about friendship and imperfect care—about the ways we love not despite but through our brokenness, because it’s what we have. I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured—wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever.” (Leslie Jamison, author)
  • “In a city that eternally produces young, hot, smart, special girls with curatorial-level taste and then discards them when they’ve aged out of the proverbial pleated skirt, even the most delusional woman’s sense of uniqueness and superiority can begin to falter. Unless they manage to produce something aesthetically or culturally relevant that garners attention, fame, and money, these girls fear they may be on the chopping block next—if not today, whenever their amphetamine and Wellbutrin prescriptions run dry.” (Jen George)
  • “Brilliant … In Avery’s narrative voice, Levy has achieved a fantastic yet paradoxical triumph: It’s a voice that manages to carry intimations as acerbic as they are full of longing, as strident as they are vulnerable, and as tart as they are unguarded . . . With her own hyperarticulate, stimulant-driven style, Avery (and Levy behind her) runs into her own life, helter-skelter, as if it were a door she’d forgotten to open. You’ll want to keep reading just to see what she says next. Levy’s utterly original sendup of contemporary life seems destined to become a cult classic.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth

Flat Earth

  • Author: Anika Jade Levy (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: € 26.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Anika Jade Levy novel

A young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend in this ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent—it’s Renata Adler’s Speedboat for the Adderall generation.

Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app. The “white-paper” she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merges with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself over the course of the novel.

Meanwhile, her best friend, Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy Southern family, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature documentary. Frances’s triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, pushing her to make a series of devastating decisions.

In this generational portrait, attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. Flat Earth is a story of coming of age in America, a novel about commodification, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that’s as sharp and sardonic as it is heartbreaking.

Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and teaches in the Writing program at Pratt Institute. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in Interview, Magazine, Nylon, Flaunt, Grand, and elsewhere. Flat Earth is her first book.

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Brigitte Dale – The Good Daughters

Brigitte Dale The Good Daughters review and information of the content of the first novel by the American author and historian. Pegasus Books will publish the Brigitte Dale historical novel about the Sufragettes in London, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the novel, the author and the publication.

Brigitte Dale The Good Daughters review

  • “The Good Daughters brings fresh energy to the plight of the Suffragettes and fight for women’s right to vote. This retelling of the battle for women’s votes sheds light on another side of the Suffragette movement. It contrasts the pressures each of the characters face to conform, and be so-called ‘good daughters,’ with the need to stand up for oneself and their collective rights. The narrative also alludes to the gritty reality that the Suffragettes faced at the hands of the police…Together, they achieve more than they ever thought they could.” (Jessica Mills, author of The English Chemist)
  • “Dale’s beautifully written novel drew me right in—it was almost as if I were marching right along with her vibrant cast of characters in their fight for suffrage. The depth and nuance of the storytelling, the vivid portrayal of the injustices suffered, and the power of women determined to bring about change build to a crescendo that feels fiercely relevant today. I loved it.” (Fiona Davis, athor of The Stolen Queen and The Lions of Fith Avenue)
  • “Knowing the price many paid is an essential piece of history, powerfully communicated in this engaging novel” (Booklist)
  • “The Good Daughters is a powerful novel inspired by the real women who risked everything to fight for women’s voting rights. With vivid insight to the dangers, the persecution, the judgement, and terror these women faced, the story reflects just how steep the stakes could be. Dale’s immense research and atmospheric writing shines in this must-read debut.” (Madeline Martin, author of The Booklover’s Library)

Brigitte Dale The Good Daughters

The Good Daughters

  • Author: Brigitte Dale (United States)
  • Book type: historical novel about the Suffragettes
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover/ ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.95 / $ 18.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the novel by Brigitte Dale

A moving and vivid story of three suffragettes in London and the battle for equality that tests the strength of their will and the bonds of their friendship.

In 1912, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future.

Charlotte, disappointed to discover that college isn’t the key to the freedom she longed for, shocks her family when she moves to London and joins a group of suffragettes willing to upend social norms for the vote. Aristocratic Beatrice, with a law degree she legally can’t put into practice and a fiancé she’s not particularly excited to marry, escapes to London to spend her last months of unmarried life with the suffragettes, and falls deeply—and dangerously—into forbidden love. Emily, the daughter of the warden of the infamous Holloway Jail, grieves her mother and saves her wages for a better life outside the prison’s walls. Her best chance at escaping the drudgery of her life is to stay out of trouble, but when the suffragettes land in her father’s cells, she must consider risking not only her family’s livelihood, but her own future.

With the dangerous stakes of the suffrage campaign becoming a fight for the women’s bodies and lives, they enter a treacherous world where the laws and justice system are stacked against them. They face violent protests, hunger strikes, and brutal forced feedings, and the women must decide how much they are willing to risk for their freedom and for each other.

Brigitte Dale is an American author, editor, and historian. She earned her master’s degree in women’s history at Yale and has written about suffragettes and feminist history in the anthology Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage, and Screen (Routledge); Electric Literature; Medium; and other publications. She is an assistant editor at St. Martin’s Press and her bookstagram.

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Sanam Mahloudji – De Perzen

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman. Op 29 september 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van The Persians, de familieroman van Sanam Mahloudji, de Amerikaanse schrijfster die in Teheran, Iran geboren is. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen recensie

  • “Mahloudji hoort thuis tussen zwaargewichten als Elif Shafak, Abraham Verghese en Min Jin Lee.” (Guardian)
  • “Prachtig… Ik heb genoten van de mooie karakteriseringen, de diepgaande inzichten en het levendige proza.” (Bernadine Evaristo)
  • “Weergaloos! Intens en rijkgeschakeerd.” (Sarah Winman)

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen

De Perzen

  • Auteur: Sanam Mahloudji (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman over Iran
  • Origineel: The Persians (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Madelon Janse
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 29 september 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 13,99 / € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Sanam Mahloudji

De statige matriarch Elizabeth bleef in Iran na de revolutie. Alleen haar nichtje Niaz bezoekt haar nog. Haar dochters, de flamboyante zakenvrouw Shirin, en Seema, een teleurgestelde huisvrouw, proberen in de VS een leven op te bouwen. Kleindochter Bita, rechtenstudent in New York, is op zoek naar een zinvoller leven. Wanneer hun jaarlijkse skivakantie in Aspen uitloopt op een ramp met Shirin als schaamteloos middelpunt, barst hun flinterdunne laagje vernis. Shirin beseft dat het tijd is met hun Iraanse verleden in het reine te komen. Pas dan kunnen ze in de VS een nieuw thuis vinden.

De Perzen is een hartverscheurende en filosofische roman tegen de achtergrond van 80 jaar geschiedenis: van Iran in de jaren 40 tot het heden in de Verenigde Staten.

Sanam Mahloudji groeide op in Los Angeles nadat haar ouders Teheran verlieten tijdens de Iraanse Revolutie. Ze won de Pushcart Prize en werd genomineerd voor een PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. Nu woont ze in Londen.

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Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review, recensie en informatie roman over Antigua uit 1985 van de op het eiland geboren schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek Annie John van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Jamaica Kincaid. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review en recensie

  • “What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.” (Ali Smith)
  • “An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer … thrilling.” (Susan Sontag)
  • “So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us … and that’s exactly the book’s strength, its wisdom, its truth.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl’s passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangeness.” (Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times)

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John

  • Annie John

    • Auteur: Jamaica Kincaid (Verenigde Staten)
    • Soort boek: coming of age-roman over Antigua uit 1985
    • Taal: Engels
    • Uitgever: Picador Collection
    • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
    • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
    • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
    • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

    Flaptekst van de roman van Jamaica Kincaid over Antigua

    A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.

    An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow.

    When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a ‘young lady’, ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary.

    Jamaica Kincaid was born on 25 May 1949  in St. John’s, Antigua, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s mother removed her from school at 16 to help support the family when her third and last brother was born, because her stepfather was ill and could no longer provide for the family. when Kincaid was 17, her mother sent her Annie John Jamaica Kincaid novel from 1985 first editionto Scarsdale, a wealthy suburb of New York City, to work as an au pair. refused to send money home and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later. Before she wrote her debut novel Annie John, she wrote short stories wich wehere published in magazines like Rolling Stone and The New Yorker and the new papers The New York Times. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore – Terry Dactyl

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author and activist. Coffee House Press will publish the new Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore novel, on November 11, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl review

  • “By turns perceptive, touching, and occasionally funny, [Terry Dactyl] is a deep dive into what it means to live authentically as a queer progressive.” (Eleanor Bader, The Indypendent)
  • “Terry Dactyl made me cry and made me laugh out loud. It has all the pain and joy, struggle and delight of the lives of those who color outside the lines. It’s a book about family and friendship and love and knowing when and how to change your life.” (McKenzie Wark, author of Love and Money, Sex and Death)
  • “Full of glitter and grit … Sycamore’s prose is fluid and funny, tender and propulsive, as she brings us along on Terry’s journey of love, loss, and finding herself.” (Rebecca Hopman, Booklist)

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl

Terry Dactyl

  • Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (United States)
  • Book type: American novel, feminist novel
  • Publisher: Coffee House Press
  • Released: 11 November 2025
  • Length: 305 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: € 15,95
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the new book by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19.

Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world.

Twenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again.

In propulsive, intoxicating prose, Terry Dactyl traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is born May 31, 1973 in Washington, D.C. She is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of seven books, and the editor of six anthologies. Her most recent title, Touching the Art, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Her new novel is Terry Dactyl.

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