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NEW & RECENT LITERARY FICTION
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Conception
Kalisha Buckhanon
St. Martin's Press, $21.95, 288pp
ISBN-13: 9780312332709
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Shivana believes that all Black women wind up the same: single and raising children alone, like her mother. Until the sudden visit of her beautiful and free-spirited Aunt Jewel, Shivana spends her days desperately struggling to understand life and the growing pains of her environment. When she accidentally becomes pregnant by an older man and must decide what to do, she begins a journey towards adulthood with only a mysterious voice inside to guide her. When she falls in love with Rasul, a teenager with problems of his own, together they fight to rise above their circumstances and move toward a more positive future. Through the voice of the unborn child and a narrative sweeping from slavery onward, Buckhanon narrates Shivana’s connection to a past history of Black women who found themselves at the mercy of tragic circumstances.
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Native Intelligence
Lorna A. Rainey
Authorhouse, $15, 264pp
ISBN-13: 9781425969448
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In the immediate aftermath of September 11, suspicion of another attack was high. However, not all suspicions were unfounded. After a chance meeting with a customer at the car rental agency where she works, Nita Denson, a beautiful woman of Choctaw Indian descent follows her intuition right into the heart of an anti-American plot. The evidence she uncovers causes her friend's death and Nita becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigation headed by two dogged NYPD detectives. Desperate and frightened, Nita calls her childhood sweetheart, Philip 'Darkeyes' Thames, who leaves the Choctaw reservation in Mississippi to come to New York to protect her from danger and help clear her name. The cell group leader, knowing his operation has been compromised, will stop at nothing to ensure its success, and Nita is just one more loose end he has to eliminate. For Nita and Philip, rekindled romance must wait as they stay one step ahead of the police and the assassin and race against a clock ticking toward the doom of an entire generation.
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The Last Leaf of Harlem
Selected and Newly Discovered Fiction by the Author of The Wedding
Dorothy West, edited by Lionel C. Bascom
St. Martin's Press, $25.95, 320pp
ISBN: 0-312-26148-9
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When Dorothy West died in 1998, she was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, a contemporary of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. Popular history holds that between the publication of her two novels (The Living is Easy in 1948 and The Wedding in 1995), Dorothy West fell silent. In fact, there was never a time in Dorothy West’s life in which she was not writing and publishing. The Last Leaf of Harlem gathers West’s writing from these supposedly silent years.
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