Zami: A New Spelling of my Name

Zami: A New Spelling of my NameA soaring, sensual coming of age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.' A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy

It has been said that Marrakech awakens all of the senses

Let’s Get It On is the thirteenth studio album by Marvin Gaye

revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point

For a half century

A private meeting

sexuality and change

It features guest vocals by Ty Dolla Sign

which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career

multimedia

the novel enacts the transition from one generation to the next in the dynamic between Sensei

Queensbridge

just steps away from the archival home of Dylan’s early hero