A girl celebrates her loving relationship with her father, all of the things they enjoy doing together, and how they take care of each other.

The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to ....

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane ....

From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day Is Done, respectively), every ....

Children express different moods, including "I feel very mad," "I feel like reading books all day," and "I feel like wearing funny underwear." Reprint.

The Sex Lives of African Women uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities and relationships.Many of the women who tell their stories in this collection recall the journeys they have travelled in order to own their own ....

Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times Stella and Desiree are identical twins, growing up together in a small, Southern black community. Until, at age sixteen, they run away . . . Years later, everything about their lives is different: their families, communities and racial identities. One sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern ....