Book jacket image for Prose to the People by Katie Mitchell

Clarkson Potter

9780593581346

STARRED REVIEW

Prose to the People

Prose to the People overflows with photographs, oral histories, essays and interviews that document and celebrate Black bookstores.

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Review of ‘Prose to the People’

In her foreword to Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores, the late poet Nikki Giovanni praises a life spent in pursuit of stories—from listening to her mother’s songs while in the womb to getting her first library card to driving straight to a bookstore after passing her driver’s exam. “Nothing was more…

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