When Agatha Paul started her visiting professorship at the University of Arkansas she intended to write a book on marriage. The more she gets to know her students, though, the more Agatha realizes that their lives and conflicts—especially their relationship to money—are much juicier writing topics. Eavesdropping, making up stories for Teen Vogue, and bribing a resident assistant are just a few of the outrageous things that happen as Agatha slides deeper into her new obsession.  

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Trelawney can’t catch a break. No matter how hard he tries to impress his father, his brother Delano remains Dad’s favorite. A college education far from home only further alienates his family and exposes him to a white America that doesn’t know how to categorize his Blackness. In this series of interlinked short stories Escoffery explores racial ambiguity, sibling rivalry, and the scramble to get by in Miami while being repeatedly battered by both life and hurricanes.  

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Robbie Stephens is unjustly sentenced to six months in the Dozier School for Boys, where he finds himself tormented by the living and haunted by the dead. On the outside, Robbie’s family plans to free him . . . by any means necessary. 

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After a mysterious event causes all white Americans to walk into the nearest body of water, formerly incarcerated Charles Brunton, now a professor at Howard, reconnects with his estranged daughter, Sidney, following her long year of fear and isolation after witnessing her white mother and step-family drown. As they journey to Alabama in search of Sidney’s remaining family, they navigate a permanently altered America, confronting personal traumas, shifting identities, and the transformed nature of community in a new world. 

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Sol her and wife, Alice, are hoping for a fresh start in the gated community of Maneless Acres where they’ve just bought their dream home. The neighborhood seems a little too perfect to Sol, but with her traumatic past she has a tendency to be overly suspicious of everything. When Alice and Sol decide to not join the homeowner’s association, however, the couple soon learns that perfection comes at a price. 

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