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Limbo

An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway.

The Duppy

Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.

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Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

The powerful memoir of a female African American advertising executive’s unprecedented and unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era.

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8/30/26, 5:00pm

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