THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Bone Black bell hooks ◆ Memoir Bone Black bell hooks Fragmentary memories trace the making of a writer in a Black Southern family.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson ◆ Memoir Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Woodson remembers growing up between South Carolina and New York in verse attentive to family stories.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou ◆ Memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Angelou revisits a childhood divided among homes, shaped by Southern segregation and the struggle to speak.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison ◆ Fiction The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Pecola Breedlove’s longing for blue eyes makes a community’s hierarchies painfully visible.
