Essie Chambers has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, given annually to an emerging African American fiction writer, for her debut novel, Swift River.

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Siblings called together after their mother's death learn that almost everything they know about their Caribbean-born parents is a lie.

A Black writer's cross-country book tour becomes a profound exploration of love, friendship, and racial violence in America.

Irving, known for his novels The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire, published The Cider House Rules in 1985. The novel told the story of Homer Wells, a young man growing up in a ...

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Though the Civil War is over when this novel opens, the threat of violence and the persistence of bigotry still loom over a Georgia town.