With Christmas around the corner, here are new, local books to give to the special bookworm in your life. 📚
published in November. Rather than featuring the stormy proprietor of an English estate, her novel’s “single man in possession of a good fortune” is instead the CEO of a large corporation that’s threatening to gentrify the love interest’s DC neighborhood.tells the true story of Clara “Carrie” Johnson, a Black 17-year-old who was miraculously released from jail after being accused of killing a white police officer.
Intermixing the real with the mystical, Penelope brings new characters to the fold—ghosts and spirits—who helped Carrie survive but stick around for years after. “In African American folk magic, there’s an idea of balance,” Penelope told. “The spirits can help you, but there’s always a cost.” In addition to grappling with classism and colorism, Penelope’s novel also paints a portrait of U Street when its jazz clubs and speakeasies were the seat of Black talent in DC.
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