I work at a library so people ask for recommendations a lot. A Black friend ask me if I could recommend a novel about Black women that didn't include child sexual abuse or rape. I think of her every time I read a book about Black women. So far I haven't found one that doesn't have sexual abuse rape or lynching. I haven't asked her but I'm assuming the topic of lynching wouldn't be something she would want to read about in a novel. Can anyone make a recommendation? It doesn't have to be a happy Disney story, it could have conflict at work or something.
by ZabsterCali
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches!!! it’s great and cozy and no abuse!
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Awkaeke Emezi
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
“My Sister the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
“Lote” by Shola von Reinhold
“Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo
“Get a Life, Chloe Brown” by Talia Hibbert (and the rest of “The Brown Sisters” trilogy, and most of Hibbert’s work, honestly)