EDC Creations
 Books of the Year
2012
 Give the authors a hand for being so talented!  Here are the 30 Top Books personally read and recommended by Ella D. Curry, publisher of Black Pearls Magazine.  The list below contains her favorite 4-5 star books for 2012. This is not the Top Books for the Sankofa Literary Society.


   

1.    An Angry-Ass Black Woman by Karen E. Quinones Miller
2.    Beautiful, Dirty, Rich: A Novel by J. D. Mason
3.    Beneath the Bruises by Dywane D. Birch
4.    Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
5.    Blackberry Days of Summer by Ruth P. Watson
6.    Dark Side of Valor by Alicia Singleton
7.    Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.
8.    Grace by T. Greenwood
9.    Hood Lawz by C.J Hudson
10.  Iconic: Decoding Images .... by Lakesia D. Johnson ( NF )
11.   If Sons, Then Heirs: A Novel by Lorene Cary
12.   Land of Promiscuity by Sherryle Kiser Jackson
13.   Loving Donovan by Bernice L. McFadden
14.   Miss Timmins' School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy
15.   My Soul to Take: A Novel by Tananarive Due
16.   Never Dead by Jumata Emill Jones
17.   Property by Valerie Martin
18.   Resurrection of Nat Turner: The Testimony by Sharon Ewell Foster
19.   Running from Solace by Nakia R. Laushaul
20.   Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (NF)
21.   Sister of My Heart: A Novel  by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
22.   Some Wounds Never Heal by Rhonda M. Lawson
23.   The Butterfly Moments by S. Renee Bess (LGBT)
24.   The Escort by Carla Pennington
25.   The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
26.   The Loom by Shella Gillus
27.   The Six-Letter Word by Marissa Monteilh
28.   The Stalker Chronicles by Electa Rome Parks
29.   When Morning Comes by Francis Ray
30.   Yellow Crocus: A Novel by Laila Ibrahim

If you would like to add the books to your home library, they can be found at our online bookstore, go here:
http://astore.amazon.com/edcmagazine-20




Property by Valerie Martin

Disturbing story of a property owner in antebellum Louisiana!


Valerie Martin's Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery's venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress.

Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum south during a slave rebellion, Property takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American fiction:  the voice of a woman slaveholder.  

 Manon Gaudet is pretty and petulant, self-absorbed and bored.  She has come to a sugar plantation west of New Orleans as a bride, bringing with her a prized piece of property, the young slave Sarah, only to see Sarah become her husband's mistress and bear his child.  As the whispers of a slave rebellion grow louder and more threatening, Manon speaks to us of her past and her present, her longings and dreams in an uncensored, nerve-wracked, and perverse confession direct from the heart of moral darkness.

Exploring the permutations of Manon's own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.

 Read more about the book, go here.   

 

 

 

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