And do remember me

By Marita Golden

The edge of heaven

By Marita Golden

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...

Wild women don't wear no blues

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Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues

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Bringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. Ranging in style from Au...

Saving Our Sons

By Marita Golden

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...

Skin deep

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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...

A Miracle Every Day

By Marita Golden

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...

Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex

By Marita Golden

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...

After a novel

By Marita Golden

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...