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Also by E. Lynn Harris:

In My Father's House, August 2011
Paperback
Basketball Jones, February 2009
Hardcover
Best African American Fiction: 2009, January 2009
Paperback
Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel, July 2008
Hardcover
I Say a Little Prayer, May 2006
Hardcover
Invisible Life, March 1999
Hardcover (reprint)

Best African American Fiction: 2009
E. Lynn Harris

Bantam
January 2009
On Sale: January 13, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0553385348
EAN: 9780553385342
Paperback
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Fiction

Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featuring the year’s most outstanding fiction by some of today’s finest African American writers.

From stories that depict black life in times gone by to those that address contemporary issues, this inaugural volume gathers the very best recent African American fiction. Created during a period of electrifying political dialogue and cultural, social, and economic change that is sure to captivate the imaginations of writers and readers for years to come, these short stories and novel excerpts explore a rich variety of subjects. But most of all, they represent exceptional artistry.

Here you’ll find work by both established names and up-and- comers, ranging from Walter Dean Myers to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mat Johnson, and Junot Díaz. They write about subjects as diverse as the complexities of black middle- class life and the challenges of interracial relationships, a modern-day lynching in the South and a young musician’s coming-of-age during the Harlem Renaissance. What unites these stories, whether set in suburbia, in eighteenth- century New York City, or on a Caribbean island that is supposed to be “brown skin paradise,” is their creators’ passionate engagement with matters of the human heart.

Masterful and engaging, this first volume of Best African American Fiction features stories you’ll want to savor, share, and return to again and again.

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