Books by Fred D'aguiar

In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.

Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother has not left her room since her grandfather disappeared. Taunted, beaten, she learns to make herself invisible.

A third collection of plays by black authors: "Boy With Beer" by Paul Boakye, "A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death" by Fred D'Aguiar, "Munda Negra" by Bonnie Greer, "Scrape off the Black" by Tunde Ikoli, and "Talking in Tongues" by Winsome Pinnock.

The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North.