THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Affrilachia Frank X Walker ◆ Poetry Affrilachia Frank X Walker Walker’s poems insist on the visibility of Black lives in the language and geography of Appalachia.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Invisible Man Ralph Ellison ◆ Fiction Invisible Man Ralph Ellison An unnamed narrator moves through Southern schooling and Harlem politics, questioning who gets to define him.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin ◆ Essays Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin Baldwin brings personal grief and cultural criticism into conversation across these early essays.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Passing Nella Larsen ◆ Fiction Passing Nella Larsen A reunion between two childhood acquaintances unsettles the social boundaries each has learned to navigate.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Quicksand Nella Larsen ◆ Fiction Quicksand Nella Larsen Helga Crane moves between institutions, cities, and countries in search of a place she can inhabit freely.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett ◆ Fiction The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett Twin sisters leave their Southern hometown and build separate lives shaped by different choices about racial identity.
