Lorene Cary, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-73745-2
Cary, a black woman, recounts her challenging years as student and teacher at an elite prep school. Author tour. (Feb.)
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Lorene Cary, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (317p) ISBN 978-0-679-42106-1
Cary transfers the clear narrative voice that marked her memoir, Black Ice, to her fiction debut. In 1855, Jackson Pryor, a powerful Virginia planter, departs for a foreign diplomatic post with his favorite slave, 32-year-old Ginnie; to discourage...
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Lorene Cary, Atria, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1022-2
Cary tells a complex story of family, race, and the challenges of reconciling the present with a persistent past. Alonzo Rayne was raised in South Carolina by his great-grandmother, Selma. Now he owns a construction business in Philadelphia and...
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Lorene Cary, Author, Lorene Carey, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-74467-2
Set during the antebellum period, Carey's first novel tells of a woman who escapes from slavery only to be haunted by the memory of the baby she had to leave behind. (June)
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Lorene Cary, Author, Lorene Carey, Author, Ashbel Green, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $25 (237p) ISBN 978-0-394-57465-3
In 1971, a 15-year-old black girl from suburban Philadelphia won a scholarship to an elite prep school, St. Paul's in Concord, N.H. Cary here recounts--with cautious affection and ironic humor--the catapulting experience, having returned years later
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