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Fall 2016 Adult Literary Fiction

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Penguin Press (November 15, 2016)   ISBN-13:  978-1594203985 Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either... Amistad (August 9, 2016)   ISBN-13:   978-0062359988 The acclaimed  New York Times  bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of  Brown Girl Dreaming  delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a