Meridian Arthurian Ailey is reared in the

Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta

and as critiques of systemic oppression forcing some to countdown their last heartbeat

author of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning The Cooking Gene

Girls Play Dead meaningfully expands the language available to survivors and complicates our expectations of how a trauma story should sound--especially when belief

"A romantic fantasy of epic proportions

Meridian Arthurian Ailey is reared in the. A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage. "A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement." Ms. Magazine "My life suddenly made sense when I encountered Alice Walker's fiction." Tayari