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Afia Atakora
Afia Atakora was born in the United Kingdom and raised in New Jersey, where she now lives. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Columbia University, where she was the recipient of the De Alba Fellowship. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers.
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All We Were Promised (2024)
Ashton Lattimore
"Well-researched and beautifully rendered, Ashton Lattimore's debut delves deep into a pre-Civil War Philadelphia at the crossroads of slavery and independence, an urgent history that builds on every compelling page."
The House is on Fire (2023)
Rachel Beanland
"I could not turn the pages fast enough! An absolutely propulsive feat of storytelling! The House is On Fire reveals the little known events of an American tragedy of Titanic proportion. In heartstopping, intimate detail Beanland transports us directly into the souls of a truly diverse cast of Virginians whose varied means of survival during the theater fire and in its deftly-told aftermath, not only paint a rich portrait of 1800s America, but also hold up a timeless mirror to the racial disparity revealed by unexpected loss -- and the means through which we must all come together to rebuild. Brava!"
Hester (2022)
Laurie Lico Albanese
"The diverse women at the heart of The Crucible, the Salem witch trials, and The Scarlet Letter at last get their say-in full-throated technicolor. A luminous blend of fiction and truth, with an extraordinarily gifted heroine at its center, Hester weaves together a spellbinding tapestry of Salem history as it has never been told before."
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