Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Binding:Hardcover he’s got no choice but

he’s got no choice but to accept

and the family she has yet to discover in Nigeria

the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize

and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck

McKinney conjures a Wonderland for those of us who weren’t given the looking glass

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Binding:Hardcover he’s got no choice butA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Todayas Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape public debates, as Black polemics inspire protest