Quicksand (Modern Library Torchbearers) staff favorites and stone-ground grits

and stone-ground grits

Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical

Yet the many biographies

she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body

she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild

Quicksand (Modern Library Torchbearers) staff favorites and stone-ground gritsA classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as an original and hugely insightful writer by The New York Timeswith an introduction by Asali Solomon, author of The Days of Afrekete Quicksand . . . open[s] up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read [it] years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.Alice Walker Born to a white Danish mother and a Black