Ms. Bambara grabs you by the throat...she dazzles, she charms." -- Chicago Daily NewsIn these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compeIling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to[...]

In the early 1980s more than forty black children were murdered in Atlanta, their bodies found strangled, beaten and sexually assaulted. Toni Cade Bambara spent 12 years researching those events and the result is a novel of profound scope and impact. It focuses on a single black family whose son goe[...]