Marita Golden Books
The edge of heaven
Marita Golden's fourth novel - set in contemporary Washington, D.C. - explores the deep and sometimes unresolvable issues that stretch the delicate weave of family relationships almost beyond endur...
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Saving Our Sons
When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own family's story. But through the stor...
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Skin Deep
By Marita Golden, Susan Shreve
Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to chi...
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A Miracle Every Day
A Miracle Every Day takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negat...
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Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
A meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in mainstream society describes the author's experiences with her parents' differing values, the impact of color on her educati...
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After a novel
After mistakenly shooting the son of an affluent black family during a routine traffic stop, black police officer Carson Blake struggles to cope with his feelings of shame, family discord, drinking...
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Long Distance Life
"A novel of impressive artistry and power." The Washington PostCaught in the web of history, generations of an African-American family play out their parts on a world stage that constantly changes,...
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