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As the Civil War approaches, Junie lives enslaved on a plantation in Alabama, carrying grief, love, and secrets of her own. When her sister’s ghost appears, Junie is forced toward a life-changing choice. A historical novel with gothic elements about family, friendship, freedom, and liberation.
Dana, a Black writer living in 1970s California, is suddenly pulled through time to a Maryland plantation in the antebellum South. Repeatedly summoned to save a white ancestor, she must survive the brutal realities of slavery while confronting the complicated ties between past and present.
A skeleton discovered in a well in 1970s Pennsylvania opens the door to the buried history of Chicken Hill, a neighborhood where Black and Jewish residents once lived side by side. James McBride weaves mystery, community, prejudice, and compassion into a sweeping story about the people history too often overlooks.
In 1950s Jim Crow Florida, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sent to a brutal segregated reform school after defending his sister. Robbie can see ghosts, and the spirits around the school reveal horrors the living have tried to hide. A historical horror novel about racism, injustice, family, and survival.