From &;one of the greatest writers of our time&; (Toni Morrison)&;the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God &;a collection of remarkable stories, including eight &;lost&; Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston&;the sole black student at the college&;was living in New York, &;desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.&; During this period, she began...

"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--

"In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon. That community,...