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Old 07-11-2020, 03:19 PM   #57
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Not fantasy, science fiction or romance, but I've enjoyed what I've read of Alice Walker. She's most famous for The Color Purple, of course. But I remember enjoying The Third Life of Grange Copeland and especially Meridian more.

There's a writer, Susan Straight. Be warned, she's a nice blond lady from Riverside, California. But her first three novels; I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, Blacker Than A Thousand Midnights and The Gettin' Place are very good examinations of being black in America. Good enough that I've not heard of any blow back on the fact that a white woman wrote them. I know I'm breaking from your request with her, but I'd recommend checking her out.

For fantasy, I read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. But honestly, it was kind of a 'meh' book for me. Beautiful cover though. That's what sold the book for me.

When it comes to fantasy, I prefer what is called low fantasy or sword and sorcery. Simpler stories with lower stakes.

Thanks to this thread, I finally picked up Imaro by Charles R. Saunders. A black fantasy writer from the '80's who wrote what he called Sword and Soul. Low fantasy adventure stories featuring black protagonists with a fantasy-based African background rather than a European one.
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