Michelle Cliff, Author University of Minnesota Press $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-8166-5593-9
Cliff's body of short fiction is amassed in this elegant collection in which ancestral misdeeds-slavery, witch hunts-return to haunt the present. In ""My Grandmother's Eyes,"" a Jamaican immigrant's grandson pieces together the story of his...
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Michelle Cliff, Author Plume Books $9.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-452-27122-7
Cliff's acclaimed novel centers around the life of 19th-century civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant. (Nov.)
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Michelle Cliff, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-525-24508-7
This book gives lyrical expression to some harsh truths, using a series of vivid flashbacks to highlight key moments in a young woman's lifelong quest for moral absolutes. Born into a light-skinned, landed family on the island of Jamaica, Clare...
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Michelle Cliff, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (155p) ISBN 978-0-525-24864-4
Though many of the 10 stories in this collection from the author of Telephone to Heaven are inspired by historical events, such as the Holocaust or the civil rights movement, they quickly become intricate and lyrical explorations of inner geography.
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Michelle Cliff, Author Dutton Books $19 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-93704-3
An articulate writer with an alluring prose style, Cliff offers an absorbing tale of friendship, survival and courage. In 1858, a young girl flees Jamaica, escaping the overseer's bed and her mother's compliance, and renames herself Annie Christmas.
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