Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control.

Learning after a half-century of family life that their house on Detroit's East Side is worth only a fraction of its mortgage, the members of the Turner family gather to reckon with their pasts and decide the house's fate.

When Josie Henderson's brother Tick arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past and her own patterns of addiction.

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.

When their formidably strong-willed eldest sister is arrested, abruptly transitioning their family from respectability to disgrace, two younger sisters confront complicated dynamics in their family and identities to uncover what really happened.

Follows the experiences of two American families, one black and one white, against a backdrop of historical events from the 1950s through the first year of Barack Obama's presidency.

A middle-aged couple who has never been able to have children and an elderly widow who maintains a grueling schedule to support her grandkids come up with a solution to help both families during the holiday season, with unexpected results.

"A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family's legacy through storytelling."--

In a story of the daughter-spirit born to stitch love back into the scattered wombs of her black mothers, Lottie Rebecca Lee proves she is the ancestors’ promise to expose the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented her family for generations and set everything back up right again.

In 1964 Kentucky, fourteen-year-old Jocie Brooke is about to experience an unforgettable summer--her father has found a new love, her hippie sister is about to have a baby, and her aunt is finally pleasurable to live with--but when a black family moves into the neighborhood, Jocie finds herself befriending a young boy that some townspeople shun.