Gayl Jones

No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISON I dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregidora women dancing. Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother....

This extraordinary new novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not to glory, but to their Jim Crow communities. A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he's a...

A literary giant TAYARI JONES A richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of Corregidora A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he's a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he's a man on a quest: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love. Returning...

'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' - Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend' - Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of There Are More Things 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' - Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Gayl Jones's long career began...

A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' - Yara Rodriguez Fowler, Guardian 'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' - Sunday Times 'Intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive and subversive' - Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of...