Orange Mint and Honey, by Carleen Brice

Ack, almost out of time on the August Color Me Brown challenge and Carleen’s book deserves to be included.
Shay (not LaShay, never LaShay, never ever ever!) is having trouble in graduate school. An unspecified trouble, but a trouble serious enough that her adviser firmly suggests she take a year off. She agrees to take a [...]

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Cane River, by Lalita Tademy

Cane River tells the story of 100 years of Lalita Tademy’s (mostly) female ancestors in Louisiana, from roughly 1830-1930 . It’s a novel, but all of the people really lived when and where she says they did.
Before choosing it, I read a lot of reviews that said this was a page-turner, and up-all-night-until-you-finish kind of [...]

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Joplin’s Ghost, by Tananarive Due

I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time, and the first chapters didn’t let me down; they were like deliciously trashy candy. Phoenix Smalls was nearly killed by a piano in her parent’s club when she was ten. Now she is in her twenties, signed to rap impresario G-Ronn’s Three Strikes record label, [...]

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Wife of the Gods, by Kwei Quartey (Color Me Brown challenge)

Wife of the Gods is set in Ghana. For those of you who don’t know, Ghana is a coastal country in West Africa. The President visited there recently.
Detective Darko Dawson lives in the capital city, Accra, but is assigned to the murder of a young health worker in the small town of Ketanu because [...]

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