Happy International Women’s Day! Here are just a few of the many women we’re celebrating today.
Happy birthday to Alice Walker. Seems unfair that you’ve given us all these gifts, and we have nothing for you.
Our Favorites…
Toni Morrison: Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize winning author. Novelist, editor and professor Toni Morrison is best-known for such works as The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved (which was adapted into a film). Morrison’s Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning work shakes readers to their cores by taking an unflinching and often haunting look at the black experience in America.
Jhumpa Lahiri: Won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. In 2000, Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her novels and short stories consistently deliver a fresh, insightful and deeply human account of the experiences of South Asian immigrants in America.
Very cool! We love those ladies, and shout outs to Alice Walker and Joyce Carol Oates, too.
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Our Spring 2-works titles are here! Check out these two-novels-in-one combos by beloved authors with evocative covers designed by Ray Fenwick.
Willa Cather: My Antonia/O Pioneers!
First published in 1918, My Ántonia is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Together here with O Pioneers!, a classic American tale of pioneer life and the transformation of the frontier, this volume of Willa Cather’s works captures a time, a place, and a spirit that are part of our national heritage.
Jose Saramago: Blindness/Seeing
In Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic of blindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for a group of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for the reader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. We return to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, a satirical commentary on government in general and democracy in particular. Together here for the first time, this beautiful edition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Saramago fan.
Alice Walker: The Color Purple/The Temple of My Familiar
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Color Purple is the moving story of a young woman’s endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and musical. Paired here with The Temple of My Familiar, which the author describes as “a romance of the last 500,000 years,” this edition brings together two works that established Walker as a major voice in modern fiction.
Eudora Welty: Delta Wedding/The Ponder Heart
Set in 1923, Delta Wedding is an exquisitely woven story of southern family life, centered around the Fairchild family’s preparations for a wedding at their Mississippi plantation. In The Ponder Heart, a comic masterpiece, Miss Edna Earle Ponder, one of the few living members of a once prominent family, tells a traveling salesman the history of her family and fellow townsfolk. This edition brings together two fine works from one of the most beloved writers of the American south.
