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Critically acclaimed novelist Straight takes readers into the world of illegal Mexican migrants in this lovingly rendered story of a mother and daughter's search for each other. A Book Sense 76 Pick.

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A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an essential voice in American writing and in writing of the West." -The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a most anticipated book of March 2022 by the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and AltaFrom the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and landJohnny Frí...

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From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and landJohnny Frias has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Spanish settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days working for the California Highway Patrol pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist ins...

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To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before." In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and the nation's indomitable women, written by National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Susan Straight

A valuable social history and a personal narrative, this work reads like a love song to America and the nation's indomitable women, written by National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow.

Straight's portrayal of a black woman's life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of human thought and feeling." -USA Today Evoking the Gullah-speaking 1950s community of Pine Gardens, South Carolina, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots follows Marietta Cook, a maid with a growing interest in the civil rights movement, as she raises talented twin boys destined for...

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A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America-a "heartrending, take-no-prisoners" novel (Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award finalist. A vital and unsparing vision of America from National Book Award finalist Susan Straight. At three years old, Elvia was placed in foster care when her mother, Serafina, an undocumented migrant worker, was deported. Twelve years later, Serafina risks everything to return to the ...

A valuable social history and a personal narrative, this work reads like a love song to America and the nation's indomitable women, written by National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow.

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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of A Million Nightingales ("a writer of exceptional gifts and grace"-Joyce Carol Oates) comes a luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together. Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest child...

Glorette Picard is dead. Her body is found in the alley behind a taqueria, but no one saw her die. As the close-knit residents of Rio Seco, California, react to Glorette's murder, it becomes clear that her life and death are deeply entangled with the dark history of the city, and the untouchable beauty that, finally, killed her.

In this “miraculous” novel by the author of Highwire Moon, a Lowcountry woman finds her place in the world during the Civil Rights era (USA Today).   In 1959, thirteen-year-old Marietta Cook is as tall as she is reserved, a quiet outsider in an already marginalized community of slave descendants rooted in South Carolina’s low country. While she and her ailing mother eke out a modest existence selling hand-woven baskets by the side of the road,...

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 1994.