Pre-Owned Jam on the Vine (Paperback) by Lashonda Katrice Barnett

from banjo123

I wanted to like this book better than I did. It's a historical novel about an African American lesbian journalist, spanning the years between about 1897 and 1915, taking place in Texas and Kansas. Barnett obviously did a lot of research, and it's a fascinating time period, but there were so many...

from BettyTaylor56

This is a very honest look at life for a black woman trying to be a journalist in the US in the early 20th century. Even in her childhood Ivoe is fascinated with newspapers. She steals every one she can from her mother's white employer. The written word is her escape from the poverty she lives in...

from sj1335

This is a fantastic read! I really enjoyed this book, I love reading African American historical fiction from the 1900's on after slavery more during the Jim Crow era. This is a fictional account but unfortunately it has a lot of truth to it. The writer really grabs you when you start from the be...

from sj1335

This is a fantastic read! I really enjoyed this book, I love reading African American historical fiction from the 1900's on after slavery more during the Jim Crow era. This is a fictional account but unfortunately it has a lot of truth to it. The writer really grabs you when you start from the be...