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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature."—Imani PerryLegendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exileGayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discover... Read More about The Birdcatcher

A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black... Read More about Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments

2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in FictionA NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 SelectionA New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian “50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021” Selection · An Esquire “Best Books of Fall 2021” Selection... Read More about Palmares

The acclaimed author’s first collection of stories, reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her second and latest, Butter“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-te... Read More about White Rat: Short Stories

Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS.  ("You have to read them.")One of The New Yorker’s “The Best Books We Read in 2020” picks“Jones’s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.”—Anna Wiener, The New York... Read More about Corregidora (Celebrating Black Women Writers #1)

A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black... Read More about Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments