Author: Dameron, DeLana R. A.
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 7 November 2024 by Swift Press in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 304 pages
197 x 130 x 19 | 248g
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A 'nuanced, brilliant' (Essence) debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.
'A triumph of a debut, Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated' - Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the BoneMika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, a cul-de-sac in an all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, she learns important lessons from those who raise her.
With visceral clarity and powerful prose, award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron reveals the devastation of being made to feel invisible and the transformative power of being seen.