'To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who ca...

More Dreamers of the Golden Dream

Mecca

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, a ca...

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 1992.

A valuable social history and a personal narrative, this work reads like a love song to America a...

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America-a 'heartrending, take-no-...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, a ca...

No one's ever fallen out of love with Glorette Picard, with her black waterfall of hair and skin ...

'A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an es...

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

In August in Rio Seco, California, the ground is too hard to bury a body. But Glorette Picard is ...

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Straight writes with tenderness and insight about the lives of people from the Westside, a black ...

Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her...

Submitted for Kindle, BookBub, Hoopla, and all other major digital promotional opportunities