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Its All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family, and Friends
Its All Love Black Writers on Soul Mates Family and Friends [Edited and introduced by Marita Golden] — [Read by Marita Golden and Other Readers] — In It's All Love, black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. — Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she awoke certain that she would meet her soulmate in ''Meeting... more » Joe.'' Memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better in a piece he calls ''Learning the Name Dad.'' New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching ''Missing You.'' Award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures listeners with his ''An Act of Faith.'' New York Times bestselling author L. A. Banks is both funny and wise in ''Two Cents and a Question,'' her beautiful essay of discovering love as a child. And the poetry of love is here too, from Gwendolyn Brooks classic ''A Black Wedding Song'' to works by Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Kwame Alexander. This is a dazzling exploration of the wonderful gift of love.« less