Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South
haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved
and tending to the white master's daughter
He knows that he can count on his brothers
to the have-to/get-to junctures that scaffold our days
The Artist and the Feast Neurodiversity Few have ever valued literacyLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, The Artist and the Feast is a captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one scorching French summer in 1920s Provence. During a scorching summer in 1920s Provence, a young journalist, Joseph Adelaide, turns up at the farmhouse of reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe, hoping to write an article about him. There, he meets Ettie, Tartuffe's niece, who