Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & WritingsThe New York Times bestselling, National Book Award nominated author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. Honore Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads. Traditional African Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous

They will meet again and again at different times and in different places

Far as I’m concerned

and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood

shot through with delicious

Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision

A national bestseller in Canada

brave Kasia

Hendrix feels like she’s met her match

Because she knew him before―at another school

award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn

Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault

“A whole new way to celebrate ingredients that have long been wasted