Writers of Color 50 Books Challenge

8) A Drop of Patience is my second William M. Kelley novel, after the previously reviewed A Different Drummer. Like that first novel, it's heavily allegorical. It's fantasy, though not Fantasy.

The book tells the story of a blind jazz musician named Ludlow Washington and his path out of Kelley's unnamed Yoknapatawpha to jazz stardom in New York City.
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9) Jews & Blacks is a series of transcripts of conversations between Cornel West and Michael Lerner about the tensions between the Jewish and Black communities in America and ways to better understand, negotiate, and improve the situation.

I've read sections of the book before, but I never sat down and read it cover to cover before, but I picked it up yesterday and worked through it almost in one sitting. Which is fairly intense, because West and Lerner don't pull punches. They speak about the problems they have with their counterpart's community in blunt and honest terms.
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