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“michael datcher”

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  • Raising Fences

    A Black Man's Love Story

    by Michael Datcher ...
    This New York Times–bestselling memoir about an African American man's struggles and triumphs is "heartrending and beautiful" (Junot Diaz Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).A Today Show Book Club selection, Raising Fences tells the story of a man whose youth was spent committing petty crimes, experimenting with sex, and developing a mortal fear of police. Like ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animating Black and Brown Liberation

    A Theory of American Literatures

    by Michael Datcher ...
    Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool-ankhing-enables Michael Datcher to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    Americus

    A Novel

    by Michael Datcher ...
    Narrated by Corey Allen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    What happens to fraternal love when identical twins stop being identical? To romantic love when indiscretions done in the dark have a secret witness? What happens to a family when the love that binds also strangles? Inspired by Egyptian mythology and young America’s coming-of-age story, AMERICUS follows the lives of rambunctious identical twins Asar and Set Americus. After Set contracts vitiligo ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Song for Two Homes

    Illustrated by Charly Palmer ...
    by Dr. Michael Datcher ...
    From the New York Times Bestselling author of Raising Fences and the award-winning illustrator of Mama Africa!, comes a moving and lyrical picture book about a girl navigating her parents' divorce, featuring a Black family, two homes, and whole lot of love.Auset's parents tell her the divorce wasn't her fault, but she got split in two too. Now she has two homes, two rooms, two Christmases, and two ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Harlem at Four

    Illustrated by Frank Morrison ...
    by Dr. Michael Datcher ...
    A stunning picture book comprising two incredible stories—the first part chronicles the adventures of a four-year-old Black girl named Harlem, while the second part describes the history of Harlem the neighborhood. From a New York Times bestselling author and a critically acclaimed illustrator.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksIn this ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    A Song for Two Homes

    by Dr. Michael Datcher ...
    Narrated by Angel Pean ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    From the New York Times Bestselling author of Raising Fences and the award-winning illustrator of Mama Africa!, comes a moving and lyrical picture book about a girl navigating her parents' divorce, featuring a Black family, two homes, and whole lot of love.Auset's parents tell her the divorce wasn't her fault, but she got split in two too. Now she has two homes, two rooms, two Christmases, and two ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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